The New England Milton

Author : K. P. Van Anglen
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271041862
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New England Milton written by K. P. Van Anglen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New England Milton concentrates on the poet's place in the writings of the Unitarians and the Transcendentalists, especially Emerson, Thoreau, William Ellery Channing, Jones Very, Margaret Fuller, and Theodore Parker, and demonstrates that his reception by both groups was a function of their response as members of the New England elite to older and broader sociopolitical tensions in Yankee culture as it underwent the process of modernization. For Milton and his writings (particularly Paradise Lost) were themselves early manifestations of the continuing crisis of authority that later afflicted the dominant class and professions in Boston; and so, the Unitarian Milton, like the Milton of Emerson's lectures or Thoreau's Walden, quite naturally became the vehicle for literary attempts by these authors to resolve the ideological contradictions they had inherited from the Puritan past.

Author : Kevin Van Anglen
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271028279
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New England Milton written by Kevin Van Anglen and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars who seek the roots of Milton's influence in the early republic will have in one volume precisely the kind of information they need. And those who wish to understand Milton's place among the American Romantics more generally will find here] fine chapters on Emerson, Thoreau, and the other Transcendentalists. This book will have wide appeal among Miltonists and people in American literature, but even more so for those who wish to be stimulated to reconsider transatlantic literary culture.-Philip F. Gura, University of North Carolina"Van Anglen has written a fascinating chapter in New England literary sociology, revealing] how early nineteenth-century New England used the poetry, example, and person of Milton to solve the problem of authority. The author knows the material thoroughly. His scholarship is inclusive and up-to-date. This is a solid achievement."-Robert D. Richardson, Wesleyan UniversityThe New England Milton concentrates on the poet's place in the writings of the Unitarians and the Transcendentalists, especially Emerson, Thoreau, William Ellery Channing, Jones Very, Margaret Fuller, and Theodore Parker, and demonstrates that his reception by both groups was a function of their response as members of the New England elite to older and broader socio-political tensions in Yankee culture as it underwent the process of modernization. For Milton and his writings (particularly Paradise Lost) were themselves early manifestations of the continuing crisis of authority that later afflicted the dominant class and professions in Boston; and so, the Unitarian Milton, like the Milton of Emerson's lectures or Thoreau's Walden, quite naturally became the vehicle for literary attempts by these authors to resolve the ideological contradictions they had inherited from the Puritan past.

Author : Blaine Greteman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107434793
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics and Politics of Youth in Milton's England written by Blaine Greteman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the notion of government by consent took hold in early modern England, many authors used childhood and maturity to address contentious questions of political representation - about who has a voice and who can speak on his or her own behalf. For John Milton, Ben Jonson, William Prynne, Thomas Hobbes and others, the period between infancy and adulthood became a site of intense scrutiny, especially as they examined the role of a literary education in turning children into political actors. Drawing on new archival evidence, Blaine Greteman argues that coming of age in the seventeenth century was a uniquely political act. His study makes a compelling case for understanding childhood as a decisive factor in debates over consent, autonomy and political voice, and will offer graduate students and scholars a new perspective on the emergence of apolitical children's literature in the eighteenth century.

Author : Peter C. Herman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107019222
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Milton Criticism written by Peter C. Herman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of new essays demonstrating a wholly new approach to the complexities of Milton's work.

Author : Thomas Chandler Fulton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558498440
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Milton written by Thomas Chandler Fulton and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the relationship between the manuscript evidence of Milton's thinking and its representation in his printed works

Author : Christopher Hill
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788736842
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milton and the English Revolution written by Christopher Hill and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable book Christopher Hill used the learning gathered in a lifetime's study of seventeenth-century England to carry out a major reassessment of Milton as man, politician, poet, and religious thinker. The result is a Milton very different from most popular representations: instead of a gloomy, sexless "Puritan", we have a dashingly thinker, branded with the contemporary reputation of a libertine.

Author : John T. Shawcross
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813170145
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Milton written by John T. Shawcross and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Winner of the James Holly Hanford Prize given by the Milton Society of America An exporation into the mind of John Milton that probes deeper than previous biographical studies, John Shawcross's award-winning text examines the psychological underpinnings of Milton's decision to become a poet, the homoerotic dimensions of his personality, and his relationships with his father and mother. John T. Shawcross is professor emeritus of English at the University of Kentucky and the author and editor of many books. See other books in the series Studies in the English Renaissance.

Author : New England Water Works Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the New England Water Works Association written by New England Water Works Association and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Poole
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674971078
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost written by William Poole and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Poole recounts Milton's life as England’s self-elected national poet and explains how the greatest poem of the English language came to be written. How did a blind man compose this staggeringly complex, intensely visual work? Poole explores how Milton’s life and preoccupations inform the poem itself—its structure, content, and meaning.

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 : 9780241965481
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hawksmoor written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe.' So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind . . . Cover art by: Barn'whether the book addresses graffiti explicitly, evoke a city from the past, or are considered cult classics, the novels all share the quality - like street art - of speaking to their time.' Guardian Gallery