The Oxford Handbook of Milton
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 November 2009
- ISBN 9780199210886
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages738 pages
- Size 246x171 mm
- Weight 1452 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. The Oxford Handbook of Milton is a comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studies in the early twenty-first century, bringing together an international team of more than thirty leading scholars.
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Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. The Oxford Handbook of Milton is a comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studies in the early twenty-first century, bringing together an international team of thirty-five leading scholars in one volume. The rise of critical interest in Milton's political and religious ideas is the most striking aspect of Milton studies in recent times, a consequence in great part of the increasingly fluid relations between literary and historical study. The Oxford Handbook both embodies the interest in Milton's political and religious contexts in the last generation and seeks to inaugurate a new phase in Milton studies through closer integration of the poetry and prose. There are eight essays on various aspects of Paradise Lost, ranging from its classical background and poetic form to its heretical theology and representation of God. There are sections devoted both to the shorter poems, including 'Lycidas' and Comus, and the final poems, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. There are also three sections on Milton's prose: the early controversial works on church government, divorce, and toleration, including Areopagitica; the regicide and republican prose of 1649-1660, the period during which he served as the chief propagandist for the English Commonwealth and Cromwell's Protectorate, and the various writings on education, history, and theology. The opening essays explore what we know about Milton's biography and what it might tell us; the final essays offer interpretations of aspects of Milton's massive influence on later writers, including the Romantic poets.
Highly recommended
Table of Contents:
Notes on Contributors
Note on the Text and List of Abbreviations
Miltons' Life: Some Significant Dates
Part I: Lives
'Ere Half My Days': Milton's Life, 1608-1640
John Milton: The Later Life, 1641-1675
Part II: Shorter Poems
'The Adorning of My Native Tongue': Milton's Latin Poetry and Linguistic Metamorphosis
Milton's Early English Poems: The Nativity Ode, 'L'Allegro', 'Il Penseroso'
'A thousand fantasies': The Lady and the Maske
'Lycidas' and the Influence of Anxiety
The Troubled, Quiet Endings of Milton's English Sonnets
Part III: Civil War Prose, 1641-45
The Anti-Episcopal Tracts: Republicanism Puritanism and the Truth in Poetry
'A Law in this matter to himself': Contextualising Milton's Divorce Tracts
Whose Liberty? The Rhetoric of Milton's Divorce Tracts
Milton Areopagitica, and the Parliamentary Cause
Areopagitica and Liberty
Part IV: Regicide, Republican, and Restoration Prose
'The Strangest Piece of Reason': Milton's Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
Milton's Regicide Tracts and the Uses of Shakespeare
John Milton, European: the Rhetoric of Milton's Defences
Defensio Prima and the Latin Poets
'Nothing nobler then a free Commonwealth': Milton's Later Vernacular Republican Tracts
Disestablishment, Toleration, the New Testament Nation: Milton's Late Religious Tracts
Milton and National Identity
Part V: Writings on Education, History, Theology
The Genres of Milton's Commonplace Book
Milton, the Hartlib Circle, and the Education of the Aristocracy
Conquest and Slavery in Milton's History of Britain
De Doctrina Christiana: An England That Might Have Been
Part VI: Paradise Lost
Writing Epic: Paradise Lost
'A mind of most exceptional energy': Verse Rhythm in Paradise Lost
Editing Milton: the Case against Modernization
The 'World' of Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost and Heresy
God
Eve, Paradise Lost, and Female Interpretation
The Politics of Paradise Lost
Part VII: 1671 Poems: Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes
'Englands Case': Context of the 1671 Poems
Paradise Regained and the Memory of Paradise Lost
Samson Agonistes and 'Single Rebellion'
Samson Agonistes: the Force of Justice and the Violence of Idolatry
Samson Agonistes and Milton's Sensible Ethics
Part VII: Aspects of Influence
Milton Epic and Bucolic: Empire and Readings of Paradise Lost, 1667-1837
Miltonic Romanticism
