Milton’s Paradise Lost: Moral Education - Hardcover

Thickstun, M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1403977577 ISBN 13: 9781403977571

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Synopsis

This book reads Milton's Paradise Lost as a poem that seeks to educate its readers by narrating the education of its main characters. Many of Milton's characters enter the action in late adolescence, newly independent and eager to test themselves, to discover who they are and their place in the world. The poem charts their progress into moral adulthood. Taking as its premise that attention to the moral development of the poem's main characters will open the poem to most undergraduate readers, this book explores both the pedagogical activity within Paradise Lost and the pedagogical activity that the poem encourages.

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Review:

'My favorite of all the recent Milton books, Margaret Olofson Thickstun's Milton's Paradise Lost: Moral Education, points out how occupied with teaching and learning everyone—except Satan—is ...The author emphasizes the earthy humbleness that anchors this loftiest of poems.' - Jonathan Rosen in The New Yorker
 
'Thickstun is a canny close reader.' - Roger Pooley, Modern Language Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1403977577
• ISBN 13: 9781403977571
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 198