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The Oxford Handbook of Milton (Paperback)
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The Oxford Handbook of Milton (Paperback)
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Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the
greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. The
Oxford Handbook of Milton is a comprehensive guide to the state of
Milton studies in the early twenty-first century, bringing together
an international team of thirty-five leading scholars in one
volume. The rise of critical interest in Milton's political and
religious ideas is the most striking aspect of Milton studies in
recent times, a consequence in great part of the increasingly fluid
relations between literary and historical study. The OxfordHandbook
both embodies the interest in Milton's political and religious
contexts in the last generation and seeks to inaugurate a new phase
in Milton studies through closer integration of the poetry and
prose. There are eight essays on various aspects of Paradise Lost,
ranging from its classical background and poetic form to its
heretical theology and representation of God. There are sections
devoted both to the shorter poems, including 'Lycidas' and Comus,
and the final poems, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. There
are also three sections on Milton's prose: the early controversial
works on church government, divorce, and toleration, including
Areopagitica; the regicide and republican prose of 1649-1660, the
period during which he served as the chief propagandist for the
English Commonwealth and Cromwell's Protectorate, and the various
writings on education, history, and theology. The opening essays
explore what we know about Milton's biography and what it might
tell us; the final essays offer interpretations of aspects of
Milton's massive influence on later writers, including the Romantic
poets.
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