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Milton, Evil and Literary History (Hardcover)
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Milton, Evil and Literary History (Hardcover)
Series: Continuum Literary Studies
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"Milton, Evil and Literary History" addresses the ways in which we
read literary history according to quite specific images of growth,
development, progression, flourishing and succession. Goodness has
always been aligned with a life of expansion, creation, production
and fruition, while evil is associated with the inert,
non-relational, static and stagnant. These associations have also
underpinned a distinction between good and evil notions of
capitalism, where good exchange enables the agents to enhance their
living potential and is contrasted with the evils of a capitalism
system that circulates without any reference to life or spirit.
Such images of a ghostly and technical economy divorced from
animating origin are both central to Milton's theology and poetry
and to the theories of literary history through which Milton is
read.Regarded as a radical precursor to Romanticism, Milton's
poetry supposedly requires the release of his radical spiritual
content from the fetters of received orthodoxy. This literary and
historical imagery of releasing the radical spirit of a text from
the dead weight of received tradition is, this book argues, the
dominant doxa of historicism and one which a counter-reading of
Milton ought to question.
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