New Milton Criticism

Informationen zum Autor Peter C. Herman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. Elizabeth Sauer is Professor of English at Brock University, Canada. Klappentext A collection of new essays demonstrating a wholly new approach to the complexities of Milton's work. Zusammenfassung The contributors to this volume emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previous Milton scholarship. Sure to become a focus of debate and controversy in the field! this volume is a truly original contribution to early modern studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: paradigms lost, paradigms found: the new Milton criticism Peter C. Herman and Elizabeth Sauer; Part I. Theodicies: 1. Milton's fetters, or, why Eden is better than heaven Richard Strier; 2. 'Whose fault, whose but his own?': Paradise Lost, contributory negligence, and the problem of cause Peter C. Herman; 3. The political theology of Milton's heaven John Rogers; 4. Meanwhile: (un)making time in Paradise Lost Judith Scherer Herz; 5. The gnostic Milton: salvation and divine similitude in Paradise Regained Michael Bryson; 6. The discontents with the drama of regeneration Elizabeth Sauer; Part II. Critical Receptions: 7. Against fescues and ferulas: personal affront and individual liberty in Milton's prose Christopher D'Addario; 8. Disruptive partners: Milton and seventeenth-century women writers Shannon Miller; 9. Eve and the ironic theodicy of the new Milton criticism Thomas Festa; 10. Denis Saurat, and the old new Milton criticism Jeffrey Shoulson; 11. The poverty of context: Cambridge School history and the new Milton criticism William Kolbrener; 12. Afterword Joseph Wittreich; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Peter C. Herman, Peter C. (San Diego State University) Saue Herman, Peter C. Sauer Herman
• Con la collaborazione di: Peter C. Herman (Editore), Peter C. (San Diego State University) Herman (Editore), Herman Peter C. (Editore), Elizabeth Sauer (Editore), Elizabeth (Brock University Sauer (Editore), Sauer Elizabeth (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 12.04.2012
• EAN: 9781107603950
• ISBN: 978-1-107-60395-0
• Pagine: 266
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets