Politics, Poetics, and Hermeneutics in Milton's Prose

Turner James Grantham, David Loewenstein, James Turner, James Hrantham Turner

Cambridge University Press, 26 kwi 1990 - 282

In this book, some of the most eminent critics of seventeenth-century literature and some of the liveliest younger scholars explore the interconnections among Milton's politics, poetics, and prose writings. While the essays focus on Milton's prose, they open up new perspectives on his major poems and on seventeenth-century ideologies, theologies, and interpretive practices. These essays challenge the notion of Milton's prose as an "achievement of the left hand," proposing a complex relation between text and context, the aesthetic and the sociopolitical, issues of representation and the politics of gender.

Spis treści

• Labouring in the Word: 1
• the apocalyptic strain in Miltons: 9
• the question of interpretation: 41
• The metaphysics of Miltons divorce tracts: 69
• No meer amatorious novel?: 85
• voicing contexts 16435: 103
• Ireland under: 123
• Miltons iconoclastic truth: 135
• Milton and martyrdom: 153
• Milton and the poetics of defense: 171
• A Treatise of Civil Power: 193
• Citation authority and De Doctrina Christiana: 227
• The History of Britain and its Restoration audience: 241
• The poetics of engagement: 257
• Index: 276

Informacje bibliograficzne

• Tytuł: Politics, Poetics, and Hermeneutics in Milton's Prose
• Redaktorzy: Turner James Grantham, David Loewenstein, James Turner, James Hrantham Turner
• Wydanie: ilustrowane, reprint
• Wydawca: Cambridge University Press, 1990
• ISBN: 0521344581, 9780521344586
• Liczba stron: 282