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"This first book devoted to Milton's engagement with Ireland reveals an Ireland before the Cromwellian Conquest and traces the paradoxical resonances of Milton's republicanism in Ireland to this day. Lee Morrissey sheds new light on Milton's political development, exposing the persisting influence of Anglocentric scholarly interpretations"--
Sommario
Introduction: John Milton and the Irish Crises; 1. 1641–1642: Milton's anti-prelatical tracts and the ulster rising; 2. The 1645 poems: spenser's 'colin clouts come home againe' and (the revisions of) Milton's 'Lycidas'; 3. Early 1649: the execution of Charles I and Milton's 'observations' in the articles of peace; 4. Later 1649: Milton's Eikonoklastes and Cromwell's invasion; 5. The early 1650s: defences after Cromwell's invasion; 6. The later 1650s: acts of settlement – varieties of English Republicanism; Afterword 'conflagrations of conviction': Irish Republicanism and English Royalist Nationalism; Index of names; Notes.
Info autore
Lee Morrissey is Alumni Distinguished Professor of English at Clemson University, South Carolina. A former Fulbright Scholar at the University of Galway and Muriel McCarthy Research Fellow at Marsh's Library, Dublin, he is the author of several previous books, including, most recently, Milton's Late Poems: Forms of Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
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This first book devoted to Milton's engagement with Ireland reveals an Ireland before the Cromwellian Conquest and traces the paradoxical resonances of Milton's republicanism in Ireland to this day. Lee Morrissey sheds new light on Milton's political development, exposing the persisting influence of Anglocentric scholarly interpretations.
