Milton, Toleration, and Nationhood

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Sauer is Professor of English at Brock University, Canada, and winner of a Killam Research Fellowship from the Canada Council for the Arts. She has published widely on Milton and Early Modern culture, including co-edited collections such as The New Milton Criticism (2012) and Reading the Nation in English Literature (2010). Klappentext This study examines how Milton's polemical and imaginative literature intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood. Zusammenfassung This study examines how Milton's polemical and imaginative literature intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood. Through detailed case studies of Milton's works! Elizabeth Sauer shows the extent to which seventeenth-century English notions of nationhood and toleration can be subjected to literary and historicist inquiry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Note on editions; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'Temple-worke': Milton's literary ecclesiology; 2. Reduction: civilizing conquests in Ireland; 3. Natural law: Milton's post-revolutionary Defences of England; 4. Disestablishment: divorce of church and state; 5. Geography: spatial poetics; 6. Exogamy: 'entercourse' with philistines; Epilogue.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Elizabeth Sauer, Elizabeth (Brock University Sauer, Sauer Elizabeth
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 09.12.2013
• EAN: 9781107041943
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04194-3
• Pagine: 230
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; English, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets