Lewalski: Paradise Lost & The Rhetoric Of Literary Forms Lpe (Princeton Legacy Library) - Softcover

Lewalski, B

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691102201 ISBN 13: 9780691102207

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1992

Synopsis

This comprehensive study interprets Paradise Lost as a rhetoric of literary forms, by attending to the broad spectrum of literary genres, modes, and exemplary works Milton incorporates within that poem.

Originally published in 1985.

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About this title

About the Author

Barbara Lewalski is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature, and Director of Graduate Studies in English at Harvard University. She has been named honored scholar by the Milton Society of America, and has served as President of that organization and of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Her numerous publications include "Milton's Brief Epic: The Genre, Meaning and Art of "Paradise Regained"" (1966)", Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth Century Religious Lyric" (1979, winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association)", Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms" (1985), "Writing Women in Jacobean England" (1993), and "The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght" (editor, 1996).

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691102201
• ISBN 13: 9780691102207
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 391