Milton and Religious Controversy

Milton and Religious Controversy

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  • Author: John N. King
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521771986
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 262

Religious satire and polemic constitute an elusive presence in Paradise Lost. John N. King shows how Milton's poem takes on new meaning when understood as part of a strategy of protest against ecclesiastical formalism and clericalism. The experience of Adam and Eve before the Fall recalls many Puritan devotional habits. After the Fall, they are prone to 'idolatrous' ritual and ceremony that anticipate the religious 'error' of Milton's own age. Vituperative sermons, broadsides and pamphlets, notably Milton's own tracts, afford a valuable context for recovering the poem's engagement with the violent history of the Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Restoration, while contemporary visual satires help to clarify Miltonic practice. Eighteenth-century critics who attacked breaches of decorum and sublimity in Paradise Lost alternately deplored and ignored a literary and polemical tradition deployed by Milton's contemporaries. This important study, first published in 2000, sheds light on Milton's epic and its literary and religious contexts.


Catholic and Reformed

Catholic and Reformed

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  • Author: Anthony Milton
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521893299
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 624

Challenging account of religious controversy between Catholic and Protestant before the Civil War.


Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

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  • Author: John Milton
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  • Category : Bible
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 464


Milton Unbound

Milton Unbound

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  • Author: John P. Rumrich
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521551730
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 206

John Milton - heretic, defender of the Cromwellian regicides, epic poet - holds a crucial strategic position on the intellectual and ideological map of literary studies. In this provocative and liberating study, John P. Rumrich contends that contemporary critics, despite differences in methodology, have contributed to the invention of a monolithic or institutional Milton, as censorious preacher, aggressive misogynist, and champion of the emerging bourgeoisie. Rumrich reveals the pressures that have shaped this current critical orthodoxy, and exposes the historical inaccuracies and logical inconsistencies that sustain it. Through analysis of Milton's poetry and prose, and consideration of the historical forces that informed Milton's writing, Rumrich argues instead for a more complex Milton who was able to accommodate uncertainty and doubt.


Areopagitica

Areopagitica

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  • Author: John Milton
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  • Category : Freedom of the press
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 60


Milton and Heresy

Milton and Heresy

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  • Author: Stephen B. Dobranski
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521630657
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 286

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Milton and the Burden of Freedom

Milton and the Burden of Freedom

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  • Author: Warren Chernaik
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107153182
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 285

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.


The New Milton Criticism

The New Milton Criticism

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  • Author: Peter C. Herman
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107379563
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 267

The New Milton Criticism seeks to emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previous Milton scholarship. Contributors to the volume move Milton's open-ended poetics to the centre of Milton studies by showing how analysing irresolvable questions – religious, philosophical and literary critical – transforms interpretation and enriches appreciation of his work. The New Milton Criticism encourages scholars to embrace uncertainties in his writings rather than attempt to explain them away. Twelve critics from a range of countries, approaches and methodologies explore these questions in these new readings of Paradise Lost and other works. Sure to become a focus of debate and controversy in the field, this volume is a truly original contribution to early modern studies.


Milton and Gender

Milton and Gender

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  • Author: Catherine Gimelli Martin
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1139442813
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 293

Milton's contempt for women has been accepted since Samuel Johnson's famous Life of the poet. Subsequent critics have long debated whether Milton's writings were anti- or pro-feminine, a problem further complicated by his advocacy of 'divorce on demand' for men. Milton and Gender re-evaluates these claims of Milton as anti-feminist, pointing out that he was not seen that way by contemporaries, but espoused startlingly fresh ideas of marriage and the relations between the sexes. The first two sections of specially commissioned essays in this volume investigate the representations of gender and sexuality in Milton's prose and verse. In the final section, the responses of female readers ranging from George Eliot and Virginia Woolf to lesser-known artists and revolutionaries are brought to bear on Milton's afterlife and reputation. Together, these essays provide a critical perspective on the contested issues of femininity and masculinity, marriage and divorce in Milton's work.


Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist in Early Modern Religious Poetry

Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist in Early Modern Religious Poetry

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  • Author: Ryan Netzley
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • ISBN: 1442642815
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 297

The courtly love tradition had a great influence on the themes of religious poetry—just as an absent beloved could be longed for passionately, so too could a distant God be the subject of desire. But when authors began to perceive God as immanently available, did the nature and interpretation of devotional verse change? Ryan Netzley argues that early modern religious lyrics presented both desire and reading as free, loving activities, rather than as endless struggles or dramatic quests. Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist analyzes the work of prominent early modern writers—including John Milton, Richard Crashaw, John Donne, and George Herbert—whose religious poetry presented parallels between sacramental desire and the act of understanding written texts. Netzley finds that by directing devotees to crave spiritual rather than worldly goods, these poets questioned ideas not only of what people should desire, but also how they should engage in the act of yearning. Challenging fundamental assumptions of literary criticism, Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist shows how poetry can encourage love for its own sake, rather than in the hopes of salvation.