Literature And Dissent In Miltons England

Author : Sharon Achinstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521818049
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Dissent in Milton's England written by Sharon Achinstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Author : Sharon Achinstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019929593X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milton & Toleration written by Sharon Achinstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen leading Milton scholars examine the idea of toleration in Milton's poetry and prose. Looking at how Milton himself imagined tolerance and locating his works in their literary, historical, and philosophical context, the essays address central issues including violence, heresy, church polity, liberalism, libertinism, natural law, equity, imperialism, republicanism, and Milton and his Muslim readers.

Author : Sandro Jung
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843843439
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Literature and Print Culture written by Sandro Jung and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complexity of print culture in Britain between the seventeenth and nineteenth century is investigated in these wide-ranging articles. The essays collected here offer examinations of bibliographical matters, publishing practices, the illustration of texts in a variety of engraved media, little studied print culture genres, the critical and editorial fortunes of individual works, and the significance of the complex interrelationships that authors entertained with booksellers, publishers, and designers. They investigate how all these relationships affected the production of print commodities and how all the agents involved in the making of books contributed to the cultural literacy of readers and the formation of a canon of literary texts. Specific topics include a bibliographical study of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and its editions from its first publication to the present day; the illustrations of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the ways in which the interpretive matrices of book illustration conditioned the afterlife and reception of Bunyan's work; the almanac and the subscription edition; publishing history, collecting, reading, and textual editing, especially of Robert Burns's poems and James Thomson's The Seasons; the "printing for the author" practice; the illustrated and material existence of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels, and the Victorian periodical, The Athenaeum. Sandro Jung is Research Professor of Early Modern British Literature and Director of the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture at Ghent University. Contributors: Gerard Carruthers, Nathalie Collé-Bak, Marysa Demoor, Alan Downie, Peter Garside, Sandro Jung, Brian Maidment, Laura L. Runge.

Author : Warren Chernaik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107153182
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milton and the Burden of Freedom written by Warren Chernaik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the unresolved tensions in Milton's writings, as he grapples with the paradox of freedom in a universe ruled by an all-powerful God.

Author : Sharon Achinstein
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191537837
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milton & Toleration written by Sharon Achinstein and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locating John Milton's works in national and international contexts, and applying a variety of approaches from literary to historical, philosophical, and postcolonial, Milton and Toleration offers a wide-ranging exploration of how Milton's visions of tolerance reveal deeper movements in the history of the imagination. Milton is often enlisted in stories about the rise of toleration: his advocacy of open debate in defending press freedoms, his condemnation of persecution, and his criticism of ecclesiastical and political hierarchies have long been read as milestones on the road to toleration. However, there is also an intolerant Milton, whose defence of religious liberty reached only as far as Protestants. This book of sixteen essays by leading scholars analyses tolerance in Milton's poetry and prose, examining the literary means by which tolerance was questioned, observed, and became an object of meditation. Organized in three parts, 'Revising Whig Accounts,' 'Philosophical Engagements,' 'Poetry and Rhetoric,' the contributors, including leading Milton scholars from the USA, Canada, and the UK, address central toleration issues including heresy, violence, imperialism, republicanism, Catholicism, Islam, church community, liberalism, libertinism, natural law, legal theory, and equity. A pan-European perspective is presented through analysis of Milton's engagement with key figures and radical groups. All of Milton's major works are given an airing, including prose and poetry, and the book suggests that Milton's writings are a significant medium through which to explore the making of modern ideas of tolerance.

Author : C. Gray
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137383100
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milton Now written by C. Gray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By bringing together Milton specialists with other innovative early modern scholars, the collection aims to embrace and encourage a methodologically adventurous study of Milton's works, analyzing them both in relation to their own moment and their many ensuing contexts.

Author : Chris Barrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192548832
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety written by Chris Barrett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cartographic Revolution in the Renaissance made maps newly precise, newly affordable, and newly ubiquitous. In sixteenth-century Britain, cartographic materials went from rarity to household décor within a single lifetime, and they delighted, inspired, and fascinated people across the socioeconomic spectrum. At the same time, they also unsettled, upset, disturbed, and sometimes angered their early modern readers. Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety is the first monograph dedicated to recovering the shadow history of the many anxieties provoked by early modern maps and mapping in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A product of a military arms race, often deployed for security and surveillance purposes, and fundamentally distortive of their subjects, maps provoked suspicion, unease, and even hostility in early modern Britain (in ways not dissimilar from the anxieties provoked by global positioning-enabled digital mapping in the twenty-first century). At the same time, writers saw in the resistance to cartographic logics and strategies the opportunity to rethink the way literature represents space—and everything else. This volume explores three major poems of the period—Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596), Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion (1612, 1622), and John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667, 1674)—in terms of their vexed and vexing relationships with cartographic materials, and shows how the productive protest staged by these texts redefined concepts of allegory, description, personification, bibliographic materiality, narrative, temporality, analogy, and other elemental components of literary representations.

Author : Robert C. Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441155449
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook written by Robert C. Evans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook is an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive introduction to English literature in the seventeenth century. It provides a one-stop resource for literature students, with the essential information and guidance needed at the beginning of a course through to the development of more advanced knowledge and skills. It includes: - introductions to authors, texts and contexts - guides to key critics, concepts and topics - an overview of major critical approaches, changes in the canon and directions of current and future research - case studies in reading literary and critical texts - an annotated bibliography (including websites), timeline, glossary of critical terms. Written in clear language by leading academics, it is an indispensable starting point for students beginning their study of seventeenth-century literature.

Author : Douglas A. Brooks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113947118X
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milton and the Jews written by Douglas A. Brooks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of the Jews deeply engaged Milton throughout his career, and not necessarily in ways that make for comfortable or reassuring reading today. While Shakespeare and Marlowe, for example, critiqued rather than endorsed racial and religious prejudice in their writings about Jews, the same cannot be said for Milton. The scholars in this collection confront a writer who participated in the sad history of anti-Semitism, even as he appropriated Jewish models throughout his writings. Well grounded in solid historical and theological research, the essays both collectively and individually offer an important contribution to the debate on Milton and Judaism. This book will be of interest not only to scholars of Milton and of seventeenth-century literature, but also to historians of the religion and culture of the period.

Author : Neil Forsyth
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039112364
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milton, Rights and Liberties written by Neil Forsyth and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 14th, 1790, a key figure in the French Revolution honoured Milton as a founding father of the French republic. In the light of this connection, it was appropriate that the 8th International Milton Symposium (7-11 June 2005) was held in Grenoble, cradle of the French Revolution. But the connection of Milton and Rights takes us well beyond the specific link with France, and the fascinating selection of essays assembled in this volume, many by leading Milton scholars, addresses the question in the poetry as well as the prose. Milton's fervent but changing attitude to liberties is debated from various points of view, so that the volume contains essays on topics ranging from the musical adaptations of Samson Agonistes to its angrily argued parallel with contemporary terrorism, from air pollution in Paradise Lost to Milton's supposed Puritanism and putative parallels with a French pornographer.