Milton and the post-secular present
Subtitle: ethics, politics, terrorism
By: Feisal G. Mohamed
Series: Cultural memory in the present; Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780804776509; 9780804776516
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Postsecularism; Terrorism in literature; Criticism and interpretation; Religion and politics; Ethics in literature; Politics in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Not but by the spirit understood" : Milton's plain style and present-day Messianism; title: Areopagitica and the ethics of reading; title: Liberty before and after liberalism : Milton's politics and the post-secular state; title: Samson, the peacemaker : enlightened slaughter in Samson Agonistes; title: Can the suicide bomber speak?