Milton and Republicanism: 35 (Ideas in Context, Series Number 35)

Cambridge University Press
Edition: New Ed, 1/12/2008
EAN 9780521646482, ISBN10: 0521646480

Paperback, 296 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

Drawing upon the expertise of both historians and literary critics, this volume examines the classical sources of Milton's republicanism, the genesis of that republicanism in the 1640s, its disappointment in the 1650s and its presence in his work (particularly in Paradise Lost) after the Restoration.

Preface
Part 1. Defining Milton's Republicanism
1. Milton's classical republicanism Martin Dzelzainis
2. Milton and the characteristics of a free commonwealth Thomas N. Corns
3. Great senates and godly education
politics and cultural renewal in some pre- and post-revolutionary texts of Milton Cedric C. Brown
Part II. Milton and Republican Literary Strategy
4. Biblical reference in the political pamphlets of the Levellers and Milton, 1638–1654 Elizabeth Tuttle
5. The metaphorical contract in Milton's Tenure of Kings and Magistrates Victoria Kahn
6. Milton, Satan, Salmasius and Abdiel Roger Lejosne
7. Paradise Lost as a republican 'tractatus theologico-politicus' Armand Himy
Part III. Milton and the Republican Experience
8. Popular republicanism in the 1650s
John Streater's 'heroick mechanicks' Nigel Smith
9. Milton and Marchamont Nedham Blair Worden
10. Milton and the protectorate in 1658 Martin Dzelzainis
11. John Milton
poet against Empire David Armitage
Part IV. Milton and the Republican Tradition
12. The Whig Milton, 1667–1700 Nicholas von Maltzahn
13. Borrowed language
Milton, Jefferson, Mirabeau Tony Davies.