The new Milton criticism /
The new Milton criticism /
edited by Peter C. Herman and Elizabeth Sauer.
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- 1 online resource (xii, 253 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: paradigms lost, paradigms found: the new Milton criticism / Theodicies: Milton's fetters, or, why Eden is better than heaven / 'Whose fault, whose but his own?': Paradise Lost, contributory negligence, and the problem of cause / The political theology of Milton's heaven / Meanwhile: (un)making time in Paradise Lost / The gnostic Milton: salvation and divine similitude in Paradise Regained / Discontents with the drama of regeneration / Critical Receptions: Against fescues and ferulas: personal affront and individual liberty in Milton's early prose / Disruptive partners: Milton and seventeenth-century women writers / Eve and the ironic theodicy of the new Milton criticism / Man and thinker: Denis Saurat, and the old new Milton criticism / The poverty of context: Cambridge School history and the new Milton criticism / Afterword / Peter C. Herman and Elizabeth Sauer -- Richard Strier; Peter C. Herman; John Rogers; Judith Scherer Herz; Michael Bryson; Elizabeth Sauer -- Christopher D'Addario; Shannon Miller; Thomas Festa; Jeffrey Shoulson; William Kolbrener; Joseph Wittreich. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Part II. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
"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"--
English.
9781139380287 (electronic bk.) 1139380281 (electronic bk.) 1280664142 9781280664144 9781139094238 (electronic bk.) 1139094238 (electronic bk.) 9781139377423 1139377426 1139366270 9781139366274 1107231078 9781107231078 9786613641076 6613641073 1139378856 9781139378857 1139375997 9781139375993 1139372009 9781139372008
9786613641076
364107 MIL
Milton, John, 1608-1674 --Criticism and interpretation.
Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Milton, John 1608-1674
Milton, John.
Milton, John, 1608-1674 --Criticism and interpretation.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
POETRY--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Werk.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR3588 / .N48 2012eb
821/.4
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: paradigms lost, paradigms found: the new Milton criticism / Theodicies: Milton's fetters, or, why Eden is better than heaven / 'Whose fault, whose but his own?': Paradise Lost, contributory negligence, and the problem of cause / The political theology of Milton's heaven / Meanwhile: (un)making time in Paradise Lost / The gnostic Milton: salvation and divine similitude in Paradise Regained / Discontents with the drama of regeneration / Critical Receptions: Against fescues and ferulas: personal affront and individual liberty in Milton's early prose / Disruptive partners: Milton and seventeenth-century women writers / Eve and the ironic theodicy of the new Milton criticism / Man and thinker: Denis Saurat, and the old new Milton criticism / The poverty of context: Cambridge School history and the new Milton criticism / Afterword / Peter C. Herman and Elizabeth Sauer -- Richard Strier; Peter C. Herman; John Rogers; Judith Scherer Herz; Michael Bryson; Elizabeth Sauer -- Christopher D'Addario; Shannon Miller; Thomas Festa; Jeffrey Shoulson; William Kolbrener; Joseph Wittreich. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Part II. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
"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"--
English.
9781139380287 (electronic bk.) 1139380281 (electronic bk.) 1280664142 9781280664144 9781139094238 (electronic bk.) 1139094238 (electronic bk.) 9781139377423 1139377426 1139366270 9781139366274 1107231078 9781107231078 9786613641076 6613641073 1139378856 9781139378857 1139375997 9781139375993 1139372009 9781139372008
9786613641076
364107 MIL
Milton, John, 1608-1674 --Criticism and interpretation.
Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Milton, John 1608-1674
Milton, John.
Milton, John, 1608-1674 --Criticism and interpretation.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
POETRY--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Werk.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR3588 / .N48 2012eb
821/.4