Politics, Poetics, and Hermeneutics in Milton's Prose

Forsideomslag
David Loewenstein, James Turner
Cambridge University Press, 26. apr. 1990 - 282 sider
In this book, some of the most eminent critics of seventeenth-century literature and some of the liveliest younger scholars explore the interconnections among Milton's politics, poetics, and prose writings. While the essays focus on Milton's prose, they open up new perspectives on his major poems and on seventeenth-century ideologies, theologies, and interpretive practices. These essays challenge the notion of Milton's prose as an "achievement of the left hand," proposing a complex relation between text and context, the aesthetic and the sociopolitical, issues of representation and the politics of gender.

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the apocalyptic strain in Miltons
9
the question of interpretation
41
The metaphysics of Miltons divorce tracts
69
No meer amatorious novel?
85
voicing contexts 16435
103
Ireland under
123
Milton and martyrdom
153
Milton and the poetics of defense
171
A Treatise of Civil Power
193
Citation authority and De Doctrina Christiana
227
The poetics of engagement
257
Index
276
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