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Milton's Imperial Epic - Paradise Lost and the Discourse of Colonialism (Hardcover)
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Milton's Imperial Epic - Paradise Lost and the Discourse of Colonialism (Hardcover)
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Written during the crucial first phase of English empire-building
in the New World, Paradise Lost registers the radically divided
attitudes toward the settlement of America that existed in
seventeenth-century Protestant England. Evans looks at the
relationship between Milton's epic and the pervasive colonial
discourse of Milton's time. Evans bases his analysis on the
literature of exploration and colonialism. The primary sources on
which he draws range from sermons about the New World justifying
colonization and exhorting virtue among colonists to promotional
pamphlets designed to lure people and investment into the colonies.
Evans's research allows him to create a richly textured picture of
anxiety and optimism, guilt and moral certitude. The central
question is whether Milton supported England's colonization or
covertly attempted to subvert it. In contrast to those who
attribute to Paradise Lost a specific political agenda for the
American colonies, Evans maintains that Milton reflects the
complexity and ambivalence of attitudes held by English society.
Analyzing Paradise Lost against this background, Evans offers a new
perspective on such fundamental issues as the narrator's shifting
stance in the poem, the unique character of Milton's prelapsarian
paradise, and the moral and intellectual status of Adam and Eve
before and after the fall. From Satan's arrival in Hell to the
expulsion from the garden of Eden, Milton's version of the Genesis
myth resonates with the complex thematics of Renaissance
colonialism.
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