" John T. Shawcross's groundbreaking new study of John Milton is
an essential work of scholarship for those who seek a greater
understanding of Milton, his family, and his social and political
world. Shawcross uses extensive new archival research to scrutinize
several misunderstood elements of Milton's life, including his
first marriage and his relationship with his brother,
brother-in-law and nephews. Shawcross examines Milton's numerous
royalist connections, complicating the conventional view of Milton
as eminent Puritan and raising questions about the role his
connections played in his relatively mild punishment after the
Restoration. Unique in its methodology, The Arms of the Family is
required reading not only for students of Milton but also for
students of biography in general. Entire chapters dedicated to
Milton's brother Christopher, his brother-in-law Thomas Agar, and
his nephews Edward and John Phillips, illuminate the domestic
forces that helped shape Milton's point of view. The final chapters
reconsider Milton's political and sociological ideology in the
light of these domestic forces and in the religious context of his
three major poetic works: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain'd, and
Samson Agonistes. The Arms of the Family is a seminal work by a
preeminent Miltonist, marking a major advance in Milton studies and
serving as a model for those engaged in family history, social
history, and the early modern period.
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