John Milton
1st Edition
Published on 9. November 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-582-04539-2 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of selected writings represents the best of recent critical work on Milton. The essays cover all stages of his career, from the early poems through to the later poems of the Restoration period, especially Paradise Lost. Professor Patterson includes British and American critics such as Michael Wilding, Victoria Kahn, James Grantham Turner and Mary Ann Radzinowicz and guides the reader through the varied ways Milton's achievement has been explored and debated by modern criticism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
320 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-582-04539-2 (9780582045392)
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Person
Annabel Patterson
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Dating Milton, Jonathan Goldberg; Chapter 3 What It's Like to Read L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, Stanley Fish; Chapter 4 Milton's Early Radicalism, Michael Wilding; Chapter 5 The Politics of Milton's Early Poetry, David Norbrook; Chapter 6 Areopagitica : Subjectivity and the Moment of Censorship, Francis Barker; Chapter 7 The Intelligible Flame, James Grantham Turner; Chapter 8 No Meer Amatorious Novel?, Annabel Patterson; Chapter 9 The Spirit of Differance, William Myers; Chapter 10 The Politics of Paradise Lost, Mary Ann Radzinowicz; Chapter 11 When Eve Reads Milton: Undoing the Canonical Economy, Christine Froula; Chapter 12 Fallen Differences, Phallogocentric Discourses: Losing Paradise Lost to History, Mary Nyquist; Chapter 13 Allegory and the Sublime in Paradise Lost, Victoria Kahn; Chapter 14 The Father's House: Samson Agonistes in its Historical Moment, John Guillory;