A Concise Companion to Milton
Published on 12. November 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-470-65653-2 (ISBN)
Description
With brevity, depth, and accessibility, this book helps readers to appreciate the works of John Milton, and to understand the great influence they have had on literature and other disciplines.
* Presents new and authoritative essays by internationally respected Milton scholars
* Explains how and why Milton's works established their central place in the English literary canon
* Structured chronologically around Milton's major works
* Also includes a select bibliography and a chronology detailing Milton's life and works alongside relevant world events
* Ideal as a first critical work on Milton
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Product info
Paperback
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
424 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-65653-2 (9780470656532)
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Angelica Duran
A Concise Companion to Milton
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05/2008
Wiley-Blackwell
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A Concise Companion to Milton
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10/2006
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Angelica Duran is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Purdue University. A Milton specialist, she is on the editorial board of Milton Quarterly and is currently working on two book-length projects entitled Milton among Spaniards and Milton in Hispanoamerica. Her book on The Age of Milton and The Scientific Revolution is forthcoming in 2007.
Content
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Angelica Duran
Part I Surveys
1 A Reading of His "left hand": Milton's Prose 7
Robert Thomas Fallon
2 "Shedding sweet influence": The Legacy of John Milton's Works 25
John T. Shawcross
3 "The world all before [us]": More than Three Hundred Years of Criticism 43
Roy Flannagan
Part II Textual Sites
4 First and Last Fruits of Education: The Companion Poems, Epistola, and Educational Prose Works 61
Angelica Duran
5 Milton's Heroic Sonnets 78
Annabel Patterson
6 The Lives of Lycidas 95
Paul Alpers
7 A Mask: Tradition and Innovation 111
Katsuhiro Engetsu
8 The Bible, Religion, and Spirituality in Paradise Lost 128
Achsah Guibbory
9 Gender, Sex, and Marriage in Paradise 144
Karen L. Edwards
10 The Ecology of Paradise Lost 161
Juliet Lucy Cummins
11 The Messianic Vision of Paradise Regained 178
David Gay
12 The Nightmare of History: Samson Agonistes 197
Louis Schwartz
Part III Reference Points
Select Chronology: "Speak of things at hand/ Useful" 217
Edward Jones
Select Bibliography: "Much arguing, much writing, many opinions" 235
J. Martin Evans
Index 270
Introduction 1
Angelica Duran
Part I Surveys
1 A Reading of His "left hand": Milton's Prose 7
Robert Thomas Fallon
2 "Shedding sweet influence": The Legacy of John Milton's Works 25
John T. Shawcross
3 "The world all before [us]": More than Three Hundred Years of Criticism 43
Roy Flannagan
Part II Textual Sites
4 First and Last Fruits of Education: The Companion Poems, Epistola, and Educational Prose Works 61
Angelica Duran
5 Milton's Heroic Sonnets 78
Annabel Patterson
6 The Lives of Lycidas 95
Paul Alpers
7 A Mask: Tradition and Innovation 111
Katsuhiro Engetsu
8 The Bible, Religion, and Spirituality in Paradise Lost 128
Achsah Guibbory
9 Gender, Sex, and Marriage in Paradise 144
Karen L. Edwards
10 The Ecology of Paradise Lost 161
Juliet Lucy Cummins
11 The Messianic Vision of Paradise Regained 178
David Gay
12 The Nightmare of History: Samson Agonistes 197
Louis Schwartz
Part III Reference Points
Select Chronology: "Speak of things at hand/ Useful" 217
Edward Jones
Select Bibliography: "Much arguing, much writing, many opinions" 235
J. Martin Evans
Index 270