1st Edition
The Human Satan in Seventeenth-Century English Literature From Milton to Rochester
By Nancy Rosenfeld
Copyright 2008
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Framed by an understanding that the very concept of what defines the human is often influenced by Renaissance and early modern texts, this book establishes the beginning of the literary development of the satanic form into a humanized form in the seventeenth century. This development is centered on characters and poetry of four seventeenth-century writers: the Satan character in John Milton's... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Satan's journey into evil; The Tempter of Grace Abounding; Diabolus and his unholy war; Paradise Regained: Satan and the Son; ' Thine now is all this world': a human Satanic archetype; Rochester and the theriophilic paradox; The mode of man: the man of modeĀ; The Earl of Rochester meets Milton's Muse; Epilogue: where is the Satan of Samson Agonistes?; Works cited; Index.
Biography
Nancy Rosenfeld teaches in the English Studies Unit of the Max Stern Academic College of the Jezreel Valley and is a researcher in the Department of English Language and Literature of the University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, Israel.
