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Zusatztext This is a very impressive and useful collection of essays that deserves all of the praise it has gotten so far. Informationen zum Autor Nicholas McDowell is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Exeter. Previously he was a Research Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He is the author of The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion, and Revolution, 1630-1660 (Oxford University Press, 2003), Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars: Marvell and the Cause of Wit (Oxford University Press, 2008), and essays on Milton in Journal of the History of Ideas, Milton Quarterly, and Review of English Studies. He is editing Milton's 1649 prose for the Oxford Complete Works of John Milton. In 2007 his research was recognized by the award of a Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust.Nigel Smith is Professor of English and Co-director of the Center for the Study of Books and Media at Princeton University. He was previously Reader in English at Oxford University and Fellow and Tutor in English at Keble College. He is the author of Perfection Proclaimed: Language and Literature in English Radical Religion, 1640-1660 (Oxford University Press,1989); Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660 (Yale University Press, 1994), Is Milton better than Shakespeare? (Harvard University Press, 2008), and Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon (Yale University Press, forthcoming, 2010). He has edited the Ranter pamphlets, the Journal of George Fox and the Longman Annotated English Poets edition of the poems of Andrew Marvell (a TLS 'Book of the Year' 2003, Guardian Paperback of the Week, 2006). He is a recipient of British Academy awards, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center fellowships. Klappentext Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. The Oxford Handbook of Milton is a comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studies in the early twenty-first century, bringing together an international team of more than thirty leading scholars. Zusammenfassung Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. The Oxford Handbook of Milton is a comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studies in the early twenty-first century, bringing together an international team of more than thirty leading scholars. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors Note on the Text and List of Abbreviations Miltons' Life: Some Significant Dates Part I: Lives 1: Edward Jones: 'Ere Half My Days': Milton's Life, 1608-1640 2: Nicholas von Maltzahn: John Milton: The Later Life, 1641-1675 Part II: Shorter Poems 3: Estelle Haan: 'The Adorning of My Native Tongue': Milton's Latin Poetry and Linguistic Metamorphosis 4: Gordon Teskey: Milton's Early English Poems: The Nativity Ode, 'L'Allegro', 'Il Penseroso' 5: Ann Baynes Coiro: 'A thousand fantasies': The Lady and the Maske 6: Nicholas McDowell: 'Lycidas' and the Influence of Anxiety 7: John Leonard: The Troubled, Quiet Endings of Milton's English Sonnets Part III: Civil War Prose, 1641-45 8: Nigel Smith: The Anti-Episcopal Tracts: Republicanism Puritanism and the Truth in Poetry 9: Sharon Achinstein: 'A Law in this matter to himself': Contextualising Milton's Divorce Tracts 10: Diane Purkiss: Whose Liberty? The Rhetoric of Milton's Divorce Tracts 11: Ann Hughes: Milton Areopagitica, and the Parliamentary Cause 12: Blair Hoxby: Areopagitica and Liberty Part IV: Regicide, Republican, and Restoration Prose 13: Stephen M. Fallon: 'The Strangest Piece of Reason': Milton's Tenure of Kings and Magistrates 14: Nicholas McDowell: Milton's Regicide Tracts and the Uses of Shakespeare 15: Joad Raymond: John Milton, European: the Rhetoric of Milton's Defences 16: Estelle Haan: Defe...
