The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume VI
Vernacular Regicide and Republican Writings
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 December 2013
- ISBN 9780199218059
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages832 pages
- Size 222x148x51 mm
- Weight 1100 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 black-and-white halftones 0
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Short description:
Volume VI of Oxford's Complete Works of John Milton provides a definitive edition of the English prose that Milton wrote on the political issues that exercised him throughout his life.
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This is the fourth volume to be published in Oxford's 11-volume edition of the Complete Works of John Milton, the first complete scholarly edition for nearly 100 years. It brings together (for the first time in a single volume) Milton's English writing in prose on the political issues that exercised him throughout his life - civil and religious liberty, republicanism and the constitution of a free commonwealth, the rights and duties of citizens, resistance of tyranny and the role of military force in securing national stability. The eleven pieces here presented in chronological order, from The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649) to Milton's last prose work, his translation of the proclamation announcing the election of John Sobieski as King of Poland (1674), articulate his responses to the unprecedented events of the seventeenth century - civil war, regicide, the Commonwealth, Cromwellian rule, the Restoration of monarchy and the restored Stuart regime -- events which shaped the social, political and religious structures of modern Britain. They do so with unrivalled polemical and rhetorical skill, instinct with revolutionary fervour and political idealism.
Each title is freshly edited from newly examined and collated copies of either the first and subsequent seventeenth-century editions or of the manuscript record to give the most accurate and authoritative texts. A headnote to each analyses and discusses (often with new evidence) its composition, production and reception. A very substantial general introduction sets the writings in the context of European intellectual history and of contemporary British controversy and polemic. References and allusions to events and to texts are elucidated by full and detailed annotation and commentary which takes full account of recent Milton scholarship but also often draws on original research. Taken together, these features constitute the definitive edition of these texts for the 21st century.
Both editors are established seventeenth-century scholars with expertise particularly in the political and religious literature of the Civil War, Interregnum and Restoration periods.
demonstrates the diffusion of literary language into high politics...These moments exemplify not just the meticulous scholarship through which the editors this volume have situated these tracts anew, but the novel avenues for interpretation that they have opened up in doing so, surely the most important gauge of a new edition's success...This volume makes outstanding contributions to our local understanding of Milton'¢s political prose.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Editorial Procedures
A Note on Dates
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1: The 1649 Writings
Milton and the Civil Wars
Milton and the Regicide
Milton and Ireland
Milton and the Image of the King
2: The Later Writings
Milton and Oliver Cromwell
Milton and the Collapse of the Republic
Milton and the Restoration
Milton and the Stuart Succession
he Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
Observations
Eikonoklastes
[Preface to] The Cabinet-Council
[A Letter to a Friend]
Proposalls of certaine expedients
The Readie and Easie Way
The Present Means
Brief Notes
A Declaration, or Letters Patents
Notes
Index
