Milton's Strenuous Liberty
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 6 November 2025
- ISBN 9781009561105
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages238 pages
- Size 229x152x14 mm
- Weight 501 g
- Language English 778
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Short description:
A fresh investigation into Milton's deepest motivations, and his concern to maximize liberty of conscience.
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What motivated John Milton? Amidst his shifting concerns, which ones moved him most deeply? These are the animating questions of Milton's Strenuous Liberty. Tobias Gregory advances a new paradigm for Milton's priorities as a heterodox, godly, lay intellectual, arguing that, at the heart of Milton's public agenda from the early 1640s to the end of his life, there lay a concern to maximize liberty of conscience. In contrast to the republican Milton prevalent in recent scholarship, Gregory presents an anticlerical Milton whose real radicalism lay in his individualistic view of the church. Milton emerges in this study as an eloquent spokesman for unpopular positions, and as a poet who, in his late masterpieces, arrived at a broader perspective on the Puritan revolution, though without ever disavowing it as a dearly-held cause.
'An illuminating new take on "liberty of conscience" that focuses on duties and moral rights of non-clerical Christians. Analyzing local rhetorical and historical circumstances rather than seeking systematic coherence, Gregory provides new readings of Milton's poetry and prose and offers new understandings of heresy and liberty in his thought.' Lauren Shohet, Professor of English, Villanova University
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. Milton's anticlericalism, part 1; 2. Milton's anticlericalism, part 2; 3. How Milton defined heresy and why; 4. Milton and the protectorate: another look at the evidence; 5. How the trouble starts in paradise lost; 6. Paradise regained and the rejection of the world; 7. The political messages of Samson Agonistes; Bibliography; Index.
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