Spokesperson Milton : voices in contemporary criticism
The twenty essays in this book explore John Milton's role as a spokesperson for a variety of cultural, theological, political, and artistic concerns. In the opening essay, John T. Shawcross sets the tone for the volume in identifying Milton as spokesperson, first according to eighteenth-century standards, then in light of modern attention to issues of politics, feminism, and hierarchy. He concludes that Milton's voice has often been used in support of opposing causes both in the eighteenth century and in ours. The essays that follow confirm that, in its range and scope, Milton's powerful voice was not one but many
Print Book, English, ©1994
Susquehanna University Press ; Associated University Presses, Selinsgrove, London, ©1994
Aufsatzsammlung
xv, 284 pages ; 24 cm
9780945636656, 0945636652
29519392
Spokesperson Milton / J.T. Shawcross
The fruitless tree in Paradise Lost: symbol of sin / A.M. Mathews
No fortunate fall, no "Unfeared second fate" Satan and the critique of meliorism, Paradise Lost, book 2 / C.G. Martin
"By faith to stand": faith in the theodicy of Paradise lost / J.S. Tanner
Dodging the dragon's tail: apocalyptic combat in Paradise regained / S. Smith
Jubilee in scripture and history: reading Milton's "At a solemn music" / S.M. Buhler
Milton's royalist reflex: the failure of argument and the role of dialogics in Eikonoklastes / J. Hiles
The cardinal and the king: Milton's state letters to France / R.T. Fallon
"Under thir head embodied all in one": Milton's reinterpretation of the organic analogy in Paradise lost / S. Jablonski
A fissure in the Milton window?: Arnold's 1888 address / D. Boocker
Meddling with authority: inspiration and speech acts in Milton's prose / A. Esterhammer
The creative self and the self created in Paradise lost / A.W. Fields
Conflicts of authority : interpretation of events in Paradise regained and Samson agonistes / D.T. Lochman
Authorial providence and the dramatic form of Samson agonistes / J. Collins
Comus: Milton's re-formation of the masque / J.A. Hubbell
Milton's vergilian epigraphs of 1637 and 1645 / N.J. Woodall
"Nature taught art": the topos of art and nature in Paradise regained / P.M. McCluskey
Beneficent hierarchies: reading Milton greenly / D. McColley
"Grateful digressions" and "Casual discourse: Eve's rapport-talk / J.F. Gilliland
Discourse and danger: women's heroism in the Bible and Dalila's self-defense / H. Parisi
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