The New Milton Criticism - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107603951 ISBN 13: 9781107603950

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

The New Milton Criticism seeks to emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previous Milton scholarship. Contributors to the volume move Milton's open-ended poetics to the centre of Milton studies by showing how analysing irresolvable questions – religious, philosophical and literary critical – transforms interpretation and enriches appreciation of his work. The New Milton Criticism encourages scholars to embrace uncertainties in his writings rather than attempt to explain them away. Twelve critics from a range of countries, approaches and methodologies explore these questions in these new readings of Paradise Lost and other works. Sure to become a focus of debate and controversy in the field, this volume is a truly original contribution to early modern studies.

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About the Authors

Peter C. Herman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University.

Elizabeth Sauer is Professor of English at Brock University, Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107603951
• ISBN 13: 9781107603950
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266
• Editor: Herman Peter C.