To repair the ruins
Subtitle: reading Milton
By: edited by Mary C. Fenton and Louis Schwartz
Series: Medieval & Renaissance literary studies
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820704548
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: Reading Milton
Description: "Twelve essays by esteemed Milton scholars offer fresh perspectives on the significance of close reading for Milton criticism, examining how close reading may function as an act of recovery, an attempt to close the gap between past and present, or as an act of repair that uses the past to reenvision a ruined present"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Recovering Milton's poetics. Lord Monboddo, Close reading, and "Density of sense" in Paradise /John Leonard; Milton's pagan counterpoetic: eros and inspiration in Elegy 5 / William Shullenberger; Milton's empyreal conceit / Gardner Campbell; title: Rereading the inner landscape. Reading, recognition, learning, and love in Paradise Regained / Ryan Netzley; Paradise Regained in the closet: private piety in the brief epic / Vanita Neelakanta; Restoration dissent, conscience, and the paradise within in Paradise Lost / Giuseppina Lacono Lobo; title: Recovering ruins. Milton's genii loci and the medieval saints / Alison A. Chapman; David and Charles, Laud and Satan: the two-handed engine of 1 Chronicles 21 / Carter Revard; Unruly daughter, virtuous wife: the double subject and   double occasion of Milton's Sonnet 9 / Sara van den Berg; title: Reception, ruin, and repair. Milton, Cromwell, and Napoleon in Chateaubriand and Hugo / Joan Blythe; The fate of place in Paradise Lost: three artists reading Milton / Wendy Furman-Adams;  Education as repair: Paradise Lost in prison / Sarah Higinbotham.