1st Edition

The End of Learning Milton and Education

By Thomas Festa Copyright 2006
207 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

207 Pages
by Routledge

This book shows that education constitutes the central metaphor of John Milton's political as well as his poetic writing. Demonstrating how Milton's theory of education emerged from his own practices as a reader and teacher, this book analyzes for the first time the relationship between Milton's own material habits as a reader and his theory of the power of books. Milton's instincts for pedagogy,... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Repairing the Ruins; Chapter 2 Milton and the Hebraic Pedagogue of the Divorce Tracts; Chapter 3 The English Revolution and Heroic Education; Chapter 4 The Inward Archives of Paradise Lost; Chapter 5 Coda;

Biography

Thomas Festa is Assistant Professor of Renaissance literature in the English department at the State University of New York at New Paltz. His essays have appeared in Milton Studies, English Language Notes, Reformation, the John Donne Journal, and The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature.

"In The End of Learning: Milton and Education, Thomas Festa offers an impressively learned exploration of the meaning of education as theme, practice, and motive in Milton’s poetry and prose…Festa’s book represents a critically important contribution to our understanding of Milton’s poetry and what it means to historicize poetic education." -- Julian Koslow, Virginia Tech University, Modern Philology