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This volume documents the reception and interpretation of
Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear by critics, editors and general
readers from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. Following
an introduction which provides an historical account of the play's
critical reception from the earliest times to the present day, the
volume presents a selection of original documents, together with
contextual head notes and biographical sketches of the authors and
a rationale for their selection, as well as a list of suggested
further reading. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts
engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the
introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance,
including modern theories and methods. Thus the volume makes a
major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the
traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have
developed from century to century.
Following the editors' introduction to the collection, the essays
in Scholarly Milton examine the nature of Milton's own formidable
scholarship and its implications for his prose and
poetry-"scholarly Milton" the writer-as well as subsequent
scholars' historical and theoretical framing of Milton studies as
an object of scholarly attention-"scholarly Milton" as at first an
emergent and later an established academic discipline. The essays
are particularly concerned with the topics of the ethical ends of
learning, of Milton's attention to the trivium within the
Renaissance humanist educational system, and the development of
scholarly commentary on Milton's writings. Originally selected from
the best essays presented at the 2015 Conference on John Milton in
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the essays have been considerably revised
and expanded for publication.
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Scholarly Milton (Hardcover)
Thomas Festa, Kevin J. Donovan
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R3,132
R1,071
Discovery Miles 10 710
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Bringing together eight original essays from leading and emerging
Miltonists, this volume explores a second wave of critical thought
about Milton's monist materialism, the view that all existence
arises from a single substance or reality. Contributors examine
sensory matters of fragrance and sound, the literary politics of
walking and of sexual reproduction, the ontology of embodiment as
human beings and angels, and the appropriation of Milton's
materialism by both early Mormons in the nineteenth century and
fringe figures such as gun enthusiasts in the twentieth. In so
doing, they demonstrate the ongoing relevance of Milton's writings
in the history of views of embodiment and materialist thought.
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