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The Oxford Handbook of Milton (Hardcover, New)
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The Oxford Handbook of Milton (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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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 Oxford
Handbook 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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