1st Edition
Milton and the Spiritual Reader Reading and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: "Thou art sufficient to judge aright:" Spiritual Reading in Areopagitica
Chapter Two: Spiritual Reading in Milton’s Eikonoklastes
Chapter Three: Godly Reading in Milton’s De Doctrina Christiana
Chapter Four: "There plant eyes": Spiritual Interpretation and Reading in Paradise Lost
Chapter Five: The Reader Within: Spiritual Interpretation in Paradise Regained
Chapter Six: Baxter, Fox, Winstanley and Miltonic Spiritual Reading
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
David Ainsworth is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama. He received his degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ainsworth is concerned with the strategies that 17th-century readers employed in their search for religious understanding. A solid contribution to Milton studies. Recommended. -- B. E. Brandt, South Dakota State University, Choice
"…Ainsworth makes an important contribution to our understanding of the religious imperative of Milton’s prose and poetry…Deeply engaged with his material, Ainsworth practices the kind of reading that he elucidates in Milton’s works. His intense, concentrated focus on spiritual reading never wavers, and his precise distinctions ensure that readers will be vigorously exercised." -- Ken Simpson, Renaissance Quarterly
"Ainsworth is an astute reader of Milton"
-- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 49, No. 1, 2009
