Milton''s Uncertain Eden - Understanding Place in Paradise Lost

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Mattison Klappentext Presenting a variety of ways of thinking about place in the Renaissance and in Paradise Lost, this study explores destabilization as it affects aspects of the poem from Adam's sense of the landscape of Eden to the meaning of the Fall itself. Zusammenfassung Presenting a variety of ways of thinking about place in the Renaissance and in Paradise Lost, this study explores destabilization as it affects aspects of the poem from Adam’s sense of the landscape of Eden to the meaning of the Fall itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Poetics of Being Surrounded 1. The Withdrawn Landscape: Rereading Vergil in the Renaissance 2. 'Thine Own Inventions': The Environs of Imagination in Paradise Lost 3. Urgency and Delay in Eden: Description and Inverted Rhetoric in Eden 4. Collapse and Consolation: The Postlapsarian Environment Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Mattison, Mattison Andrew
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2007
• EAN: 9780415981347
• ISBN: 978-0-415-98134-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800