One Flesh - Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the Age of Milton

Zusatztext With great erudition and elegance, Turner locates Milton's epic and his divorce tracts amid the premodern debates over the nature of sexuality ... an unusual but ultimately successful hybrid of the history of ideas and the new historicism. Klappentext Noteworthy for its historical detail and intellectual incisiveness! this study establishes Milton as a monumental but divided figure--torn between radical and conservative mentalities! between eroticism and hatred of the flesh! and between patriarchal and egalitarian conceptions of Paradisal marriage. Zusammenfassung This detailed and incisive study of Milton's confrontation with his precursors and contemporaries, establishes him as a monumental but divided figure - torn between radical and conservative mentalities, between eroticism and hatred of the flesh, and between patriarchal and egalitarian conceptions of Paradisal marriage.

Product details

• Authors: James Grantham Turner
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.1994
• EAN: 9780198182498
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818249-8
• No. of pages: 338
• Series: Clarendon Paperbacks; Paradisal Marriage and Sexual; Clarendon Paperbacks; Paradisal Marriage and Sexual
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Sexual Behaviour, Literary studies: poetry and poets