The Cambridge Companion to Milton: UK & DE sales discount to load (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 7/22/1999
EAN 9780521655439, ISBN10: 0521655439
Paperback, 316 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition contains several new and revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Milton's politics, the social conditions of his authorship and the climate in which his works were published and received, a fresh sense of the importance of his early poems and Samson Agonistes, and the changes wrought by gender studies on the criticism of the previous decade. By contrast with other introductions to Milton, this Companion gathers an international team of scholars, whose informative, stimulating and often argumentative essays will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Milton studies.
Preface
John Milton
significant dates
1. Milton's social life Stephen B. Dobranski
2. Milton's Ludlow masque Cedric Brown
3. Lycidas J. Martin Evans
4. Poems 1645
the future poet Colin Burrow
5. Milton's politics Martin Dzelzainis
6. Milton's prose Thomas N. Corns
7. Milton's sonnets and his contemporaries R. F. Hall
8. The genres of Paradise Lost Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
9. Language and knowledge in Paradise Lost John Leonard
10. The Fall and Milton's theodicy Dennis Danielson
11. Milton's Satan John Carey
12. Milton and the sexes Diane K. McColley
13. Milton and the reforming spirit Georgia Christopher
14. How Milton read the Bible
the case of Paradise Regained Mary Ann Radzinowicz
15. A reading of Samson Agonistes Joan S. Bennett
16. Milton's readers Nicholas von Maltzahn
17. Milton's place in intellectual history William Kerrigan
18. Milton's works and life
select studies and resources R. G. Siemens
Index.