Milton and the Terms of Liberty

Essays on Milton's developing ideas on liberty, and his republicanism, as expressed in his writings over his lifetime.

List of contents

John Milton and the Politics of Slavery - Quentin Skinner
Milton before 'Lycidas' - Thomas Corns
Prosody and Liberty in Milton and Marvell - John Creaser
'In These Western Parts of the Empire': Milton and Roman Law - Martin Dzelzainis
The King is a Thing - Joad Raymond
'in time of warre ... our Language is all corrupt with military Tearms': The Politics of Martial Metaphors in Post-Regicide EnglandPost-Regicide England - Christopher Orchard
Alexander More Reads Milton: Self-Representation and Anxiety in Milton's Defences - Stephen Fallon
Stylometry and the Provenance of De doctrina christiana - John Rumrich
The Figure and the Ground: Samson as a Hero of London Nonconformity, 1662-1667 - Janel Mueller
The Publication of the King's Privacy: Paradise Regained and Of True Religion in Restoration England - Katsuhiro Engetsu
'To try, and teach the erring Soul': Milton's Last Seven Years - Barbara Lewalski
Pandemonic Panoramas: Surveying Milton's 'vain empires' in the Long Eighteenth Century - Anne-Julia Zwierlein

About the author

Graham Parry, Joad Raymond

Product details

• Authors: Graham Parry
• Assisted by: Graham Parry (Editor), Joad Raymond (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2002
• EAN: 9780859916394
• ISBN: 978-0-85991-639-4
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 242 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: Studies in Renaissance Literat
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Amerika, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General