Johnson''s Milton

Informationen zum Autor Christine Rees is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King's College London. Klappentext A detailed analysis of Johnson's complicated and controversial attitude to Milton in the context of eighteenth-century literary criticism. Zusammenfassung Johnson's Milton explores the response of one great English literary figure! Samuel Johnson! to another! John Milton. Combining close analysis of Johnson's allusion to Milton with an account of Johnson's complicated and controversial attitude to Milton! this innovative book is an important contribution to the study of both writers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Johnson and Milton; Part I. Johnson the Reader/Writer: Appropriating Milton's Texts: 1. Summoning Milton's ghost: Miltonic allusion in the periodical essays; 2. 'No Miltonian fire'? Miltonic allusion in Johnson's poetry; 3. Rasselas: a rewriting of Paradise Lost?; 4. 'Licence they mean when they cry liberty': the 1770s tracts; Part II. Johnson the Critic: Assessing Milton's Achievement: 5. 'Phantoms which cannot be wounded': the Lauder affair; 6. Cutting a colossus: Johnson's criticism of Paradise Lost; 7. Cherry-stones: Johnson on Milton's shorter poems; Part III. Johnson the Biographer: Constructing Milton's Character: 8. 'An acrimonious and surly republican': Milton as political subject; 9. 'Domestick privacies': Milton as private subject; 10. Conclusion: 'what other author ever soared so high?'; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Christine Rees, Christine (King''s College London) Rees
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.07.2014
• EAN: 9781107422513
• ISBN: 978-1-107-42251-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies