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Informationen zum Autor Thomas N. Corns is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Bangor University. Together with Gordon Campbell, he is the General Editor of The Complete Works of John Milton . His recent publications include John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought (with Gordon Campbell, 2008), an edition of the complete works of Gerrard Winstanley (with Ann Hughes and David Loewenstein, 2009), and The Milton Encyclopedia (2012). He is currently working with David Loewenstein on a scholarly edition of Paradise Lost . Professor Corns is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America. Klappentext A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies while reflecting the very latest advances in research in the field. The Companion explores literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, and relevant contemporary texts and responses to Milton over time. Extensively revised and updated to reflect the most recent research, this new edition also conveys the excitement of recent developments through the addition of eight original essays, each of which engages closely with Milton's poetic oeuvre. It now includes a new section exploring Milton's global impact in China, India, Japan, Korea, in Spanish-speaking American and the Arab-speaking world, along with a chronology which sets Milton's life and work in the context of his age. The result is a thoroughly wide-ranging Companion that offers a balance between critical readings and historical and cultural context. Zusammenfassung A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original! bringing alive the diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies while reflecting the very latest advances in research in the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors ix Preface xvii Note on Editions Used xviii List of Abbreviations xix Part I The Cultural Context 1 1 Genre 3 Barbara K. Lewalski 2 The Classical Literary Tradition 22 John K. Hale 3 Milton on the Bible 37 Regina M. Schwartz 4 Literary Baroque and Literary Neoclassicism 55 Graham Parry 5 Milton and English Poetry 71 Achsah Guibbory 6 Milton's English 90 Thomas N. Corns Part II Politics and Religion 107 7 The Legacy of the Late Jacobean Period 109 Cedric C. Brown 8 Milton and Puritanism 124 N. H. Keeble 9 Radical Heterodoxy and Heresy 141 John Rumrich 10 Milton and Ecology 157 Diane Kelsey McColley 11 The English and Other Peoples 174 Andrew Hadfield 12 The Literature of Controversy 191 Joad Raymond Part III Texts 211 13 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity,' 'Upon the Circumcision,' and 'The Passion' 213 Thomas N. Corns 14 The Poetic Promise of 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' 230 Noam Reisner 15 John Milton's Comus 241 Leah S. Marcus 16 'Lycidas' 255 Stella P. Revard 17 Milton's Sonnets 270 Ryan Netzley 18 Exact Latinity and Excellent English: Milton's Early Poetry 282 Sarah Knight 19 Early Political Prose 291 Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler 20 Milton, Marriage, and Divorce 308 Annabel Patterson 21 Republicanism 323 Martin Dzelzainis 22 Late Political Prose 338 Laura Lunger Knoppers 23 Milton in Intellectual History 356 Stephen M. Fallon 24 The Radical Religious Politics of Paradise Lost 376 David Loewenstein
