Immortality And The Body In The Age Of Milton

Author : John Rumrich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108395120
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Immortality and the Body in the Age of Milton written by John Rumrich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeenth-century England teemed with speculation on body and its relation to soul. Descartes' dualist certainty was countered by materialisms, whether mechanist or vitalist. The most important and distinctive literary reflection of this ferment is John Milton's vitalist or animist materialism, which underwrites the cosmic worlds of Paradise Lost. In a time of philosophical upheaval and innovation, Milton and an unusual collection of fascinating and diverse contemporary writers, including John Donne, Margaret Cavendish, John Bunyan, and Hester Pulter, addressed the potency of the body, now viewed not as a drag on the immaterial soul or a site of embarrassment but as an occasion for heroic striving and a vehicle of transcendence. This collection addresses embodiment in relation to the immortal longings of early modern writers, variously abetted by the new science, print culture, and the Copernican upheaval of the heavens.

Author : John Rumrich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108397166
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Immortality and the Body in the Age of Milton written by John Rumrich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeenth-century England teemed with speculation on body and its relation to soul. Descartes' dualist certainty was countered by materialisms, whether mechanist or vitalist. The most important and distinctive literary reflection of this ferment is John Milton's vitalist or animist materialism, which underwrites the cosmic worlds of Paradise Lost. In a time of philosophical upheaval and innovation, Milton and an unusual collection of fascinating and diverse contemporary writers, including John Donne, Margaret Cavendish, John Bunyan, and Hester Pulter, addressed the potency of the body, now viewed not as a drag on the immaterial soul or a site of embarrassment but as an occasion for heroic striving and a vehicle of transcendence. This collection addresses embodiment in relation to the immortal longings of early modern writers, variously abetted by the new science, print culture, and the Copernican upheaval of the heavens.

Author : C. A. Patrides
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719008160
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Age of Milton written by C. A. Patrides and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jason A. Kerr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198875088
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Milton's Theological Process written by Jason A. Kerr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume proposes a method for reading Milton's De Doctrina Christiana as an artifact of his process of theological thinking rather than as a repository of his doctrinal views. Jason A. Kerr argues that reading in this way involves attention to the complex material state of the manuscript along with Milton's varying modes of engagement with scripture and various theological interlocutors, and reveals that Milton's approach to theology underwent significant change in the course of his work on the treatise. Initially, Milton set out to use Ramist logic to organize scripture in a way that drew out its intrinsic doctrinal structure. This method had two unintended consequences: it drove Milton to an antitrinitarian understanding of the Son of God, and it obliged him to reflect on his own authority as an interpreter and to develop an ecclesiology capable of sifting divine truth from human error. Consequently, Milton's Theological Process explores the complex interplay between Milton's preconceived theological ideas and his willingness to change his mind as it develops through the layers of revision in the manuscript. Kerr concludes by considering Paradise Lost as a vehicle for Milton's further reflection on the foundations of theology--and by showing how even the epic presents challenges to the fruits of these reflections. Reading Milton theologically means more than working to ascertain his doctrinal views; it means attending critically to his messy process of evaluating and rethinking the doctrinal views to which his prior study had led him.

Author : Diane Kelsey McColley
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754660484
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell written by Diane Kelsey McColley and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this study is the perception of nature in the language of poetry and the languages of natural philosophy, technology, theology, and global exploration, primarily in seventeenth century England. Its premise is that language and the perception of nature vitally affect each other and that seventeenth-century poets, primarily John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Henry Vaughan, but also Margaret Cavendish, Thomas Traherne, Anne Finch, and others, responded to experimental proto-science and new technology in ways that we now call 'ecological' - concerned with watersheds and habitats and the lives of all creatures. It provides close readings of works by these poets in the contexts of natural history, philosophy, and theology as well as technology and land use, showing how they responded to what are currently considered ecological issues: deforestation, mining, air pollutionion, drainage of wetlands, destruction of habitats, the sentience and intelligence of animals, overbuilding, global commerce, the politics of land use, and relations between social justice and justice towards the other-than-human world. In this important book, Diane McColley demonstrates the language of poetry, the language of responsible science, and the language of moral and political philosophy all to be necessary parts of public discourse.

Author : Thomas Festa
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1949979733
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Locating Milton written by Thomas Festa and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locating Milton: Places and Perspectives collects nine previously unpublished essays that examine Milton’s works as the product of his unique intellectual experiences at home and abroad, while also tracing the ways in which those works themselves express the influence of his travel, his reading, and his political engagement. Following an interpretive introduction that seeks to locate Milton through his last surviving letter, the first group of essays examine how young Milton locates himself through his travels in Italy, how Milton’s early reading leads him to situate himself intellectually, and how the intellectual framework Milton generated remains pertinent to students and communities today. The second group calculates the impact of early modern mathematical and scientific models on Milton’s cosmology, demonstrating how Milton’s complex negotiations of such models give form and perspective to his greatest poetic works. The final group of essays locates Milton distinctly through his works’ global reception, ranging from the anonymous English poem Praeexistence, to Milton’s place in the “new world” and science fiction, to his presence as a figure inspiring political resistance in communist Hungary.

Author : John Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The State of the Dead written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 194? with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Leonard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107059852
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Value of Milton written by John Leonard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading critic John Leonard explores the writings of John Milton from his early poetry to his major prose.

Author : Dennis Danielson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107494184
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Milton written by Dennis Danielson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition contains several new and revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Milton's politics, the social conditions of his authorship and the climate in which his works were published and received, a fresh sense of the importance of his early poems and Samson Agonistes, and the changes wrought by gender studies on the criticism of the previous decade. By contrast with other introductions to Milton, this Companion gathers an international team of scholars, whose informative, stimulating and often argumentative essays will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Milton studies.

Author : Erin A. Dolgoy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100045178X
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Political Theory on Death and Dying written by Erin A. Dolgoy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Theory on Death and Dying provides a comprehensive, encyclopedic review that compiles and curates the latest scholarship, research, and debates on the political and social implications of death and dying. Adopting an easy-to-follow chronological and multi-disciplinary approach on 45 canonical figures and thinkers, leading scholars from a diverse range of fields, including political science, philosophy, and English, discuss each thinker’s ethical and philosophical accounts on mortality and death. Each chapter focuses on a single established figure in political philosophy, as well as religious and literary thinkers, covering classical to contemporary thought on death. Through this approach, the chapters are designed to stand alone, allowing the reader to study every entry in isolation and with greater depth, as well as trace how thinkers are influenced by their predecessors. A key contribution to the field, Political Theory on Death and Dying provides an excellent overview for students and researchers who study philosophy of death, the history of political thought, and political philosophy.