1st Edition
Milton (Routledge Revivals) A Study in Ideology and Form
By Christopher Kendrick
Copyright 1986
254 Pages
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Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1986, this title critiques the canonical view of Milton as an isolated Great Man, and reassesses the impact of the Puritan Revolution on two of his major works: the Areopagitica and Paradise Lost . The study focuses on the emergence of a discreet ethical framework of thought within the dominant theological code of these two works, arguing that this framework – integral to... Read more
Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: reformation and ideological transition; Part I: Revolution in a pamphlet 2. Areopagitica: rhetoric, ethics, and the dislocation of the subject; Part II: The subject and primary reification 3. Possessive individualism, genre, and ethics; Part III: The epic of emergent capitalism: a generic construction of Paradise Lost 4. God: epic, hexameron, and predestinary theology 5.Satan, epic, and allegorical tragedy: predestinary ethos as desire 6. Garden and fall: predestination as metaphysical lack; Conclusion; Notes; Index
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Christopher Kendrick
