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- Visionary Milton: Essays on Prophecy and Violence
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Duquesne University Press
summary
With global terrorism a seemingly daily threat, the twenty-first century is permeated with violence and in search of some way to better understand the world and its different religions and politics. In recent decades, the literary world has shifted to a similar focus, producing new works and reexamining old ones to aid in forming a vision relevant to such a violent world. In Visionary Milton: Essays on Prophecy and Violence, distinguished Milton scholars are brought together in dialogue to discuss John Milton’s focus on prophecy and violence in his work and how these themes add to an understanding of Milton as a visionary.
The collection begins with a fresh analysis of the visionary mode of narrative in the early modern period as seen in both biblical and imaginative literature and sets the groundwork for an examination of Milton’s poetry, prose, and biography. The themes of prophecy and violence develop throughout these essays as an overall context in Milton’s life, as an important principle in such works as Paradise Regained, and as a mode for an extended analysis of Restoration politics as they figure in Milton’s poetry.
Visionary Milton extends the literary discussion of Milton’s work into a larger geopolitical area. The collection is important not only for those interested in Milton, but also for historians, political scientists, and theologians.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xxvi
- Part I: Milton’s Visionary Mode: Prophecy and Violence
- 2: Milton and the Culture Wars
- pp. 23-44
- Part II
- 4: How Hobbes Works
- pp. 65-88
- Part III: Milton’s Visionary Mode and Paradise Regain’d
- Part IV: Milton’s Visionary Mode and the Last Poems
- Selected Publications by Michael Lieb
- pp. 327-332
- About the Contributors
- pp. 333-336
Additional Information
ISBN
9780820705330
Related ISBN(s)
9780820704296
MARC Record
OCLC
794698810
Pages
371
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No