Masculinities of John Milton - Cultures and Constructs of Manhood in the Major Works

The first published book on John Milton's masculinities, this study shows how a revolutionary poet preached liberty yet elevated manly authority. Building on his era's practices of war, education, socialization, and political marriage, Milton's aggressive, ambivalent masculinities are exposed as strategically and emphatically self-serving.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Peer review: the Ludlow Masque; 2: Nearly headless husbands: the divorce tracts; 3: Chatting up: Paradise Lost; 4: True warfaring Christian: Aereopagitica & Paradise Regained; 5: Lean on me: Samson Agonistes; Postlude: pity the tale of Milton.

About the author

Elizabeth Hodgson is Professor of English literature at the University of British Columbia. She has published Gender and the Sacred Self in John Donne (1999), Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance (2015) and many articles and book chapters on English Renaissance literary cultures.

Summary

The first published book on John Milton's masculinities, this study shows how a revolutionary poet preached liberty yet elevated manly authority. Building on his era's practices of war, education, socialization, and political marriage, Milton's aggressive, ambivalent masculinities are exposed as strategically and emphatically self-serving.

Foreword

This first published book on Milton's masculinities exposes how Milton constructs the power-cultures of manhood in his most famous works.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Hodgson, Elizabeth (University of British Columbia Hodgson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.2025
• EAN: 9781009223591
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0922359-1
• No. of pages: 229
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form