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. 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.

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• Autori: Elizabeth Sauer
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 10.03.2016
• EAN: 9781107615199
• ISBN: 978-1-107-61519-9
• Pagine: 233
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese