num_pages: 209
description: Published annually by Duquesne University Press as an important forum for Milton scholarship and criticism, Milton Studies focuses on various aspects of John Milton’s life and writing, including biography; literary history; Milton’s work in its literary, intellectual, political, or cultural contexts; Milton’s influence on or relationship to other writers; and the history of critical response to his work. The eight essays in this volume offer a variety of fresh subjects and cutting-edge approaches to Milton’s prose and poetry. Nine essays focus on Paradise Lost , Samson Agonistes , and selected major prose works such as Areopagitica and The Second Defense of The English People . The essays on Samson Agonistes are among the most revolutionary ever the first interprets the protagonist in the context of royalist politics; the second reevaluates Milton’s poem in light of present-day anxiety over terrorism and suicide bombers. One essay on Paradise Lost examines the theme of obedience in the epic poem and in Milton’s treatise Of Education . A second uses the context of martyrology to investigate Adam’s disobedience in partaking of the forbidden fruit and his willingness to die. A third essay cites evidence of Milton’s acute awareness of seventeenth-century disputes concerning the structure of the universe, while a fourth essay identifies a baroque sensibility in rhythms of the blank verse. The final essay on Paradise Lost discerns how Milton accommodates science and philosophy in his biblical epic. Hardcover is un-jacketed.
language: English
title: Milton Studies: Volume 46
titlecomplete: Milton Studies: Volume 46 (Pittsburgh Milton Studies)
publisher: Penn State University Press