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John Milton - The Self and the World (Paperback)
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John Milton - The Self and the World (Paperback)
Series: Studies in the English Renaissance
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The facts of John Milton's life are well documented, but what of
the person Milton -- the man whose poetic and prose works have been
deeply influential and are still the subject of opposing readings?
John Shawcross's "different" biography depicts the man against a
psychological backdrop that brings into relief who he was -- in his
works and from his works. While the theories of Freud, Lacan,
Kohut, and others underlie this pursuit of Milton's "self," Jung
and some of his followers provide the basic understanding by which
Shawcross places Milton in the panorama of history. His
explorations of the psychological underpinnings of Milton's
decision to become a poet, of the homoerotic dimensions of his
personality, and of his relationships with father and mother
demonstrate the extent to which psychobiography proves itself
invaluable as a means to appreciate this complex writer and his
complex writings. This biography combines the traditional
chronological narrative with a technique akin to that of fiction,
"a mixture of times and a triggering of remembrances from various
time frames without time differentiations." Such an approach offers
a view of Milton "not only in being but in process of being."
Shawcross's examination of two current concerns, gender attitudes
and political ideologies, ranges Milton's work against the self he
exhibits. Specialists and nonspecialists alike will find in this
magisterial biography a wealth of new insight into one of the
greatest of English poets.
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