Locating John Milton's works in national and international
contexts, and applying a variety of approaches from literary to
historical, philosophical, and postcolonial, Milton and Toleration
offers a wide-ranging exploration of how Milton's visions of
tolerance reveal deeper movements in the history of the
imagination. Milton is often enlisted in stories about the rise of
toleration: his advocacy of open debate in defending press
freedoms, his condemnation of persecution, and his criticism of
ecclesiastical and political hierarchies have long been read as
milestones on the road to toleration. However, there is also an
intolerant Milton, whose defence of religious liberty reached only
as far as Protestants. This book of sixteen essays by leading
scholars analyses tolerance in Milton's poetry and prose, examining
the literary means by which tolerance was questioned, observed, and
became an object of meditation. Organized in three parts, 'Revising
Whig Accounts, ' 'Philosophical Engagements, ' 'Poetry and
Rhetoric, ' the contributors, including leading Milton scholars
from the USA, Canada, and the UK, address central toleration issues
including heresy, violence, imperialism, republicanism,
Catholicism, Islam, church community, liberalism, libertinism,
natural law, legal theory, and equity. A pan-European perspective
is presented through analysis of Milton's engagement with key
figures and radical groups. All of Milton's major works are given
an airing, including prose and poetry, and the book suggests that
Milton's writings are a significant medium through which to explore
the making of modern ideas of tolerance.
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