Milton Now [electronic resource] : Alternative Approaches and Contexts /
Gray, C.editor.
Murphy, E.editor.
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.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section I Temporality and Historicism; Chapter 1 "Shipwreck is everywhere": Lycidas and the Problems of the Secular; Chapter 2 "What dost thou in this world?"; Chapter 3 Milton's Capitalist Son of God? Temporality and Divine Order in Dedoctrina Christiana; Section II Form and Figures; Chapter 4 Sufficient and Free: The Poetry of Paradise Lost; Chapter 5 As Jesus Tends to Divinity in Paradise Regained: Mathematical Limits and the Arian Son; Chapter 6 Uncouth Milton
Section III Taking Liberties: Reconsidering Miltonic FreedomChapter 7 The Liberty of the Subject and the "Pris'ner Samson"; Chapter 8 What Do Men Want? Satan, the Rake, and Masculine Desire; Chapter 9 Shades of Representation: Lucy Hutchinson's Ghost and the Politics of the Representative; Chapter 10 Equiano, Satanism, and Slavery; Chapter 11 When Milton Was in Vogue: Cross-Dressing Miltonic Presence and William Craft's Slave Narrative; Contributors; Index
Includes index.
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.
Milton, John, 1608-1674
Literature, Modern.
Poetry.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.