Milton Studies Vol.38 : John Milton : The Writer in His Works

Labriola, Albert C.

ISBN 10: 0822941201 / ISBN 13: 9780822941200

Published by Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2000

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Title: Milton Studies Vol.38 : John Milton : The ...

Publisher: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press

Publication Date: 2000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

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Synopsis:

Published annually by Duquesne University Press as an important forum for Milton scholarship and criticism, Milton Studies focuses on various aspects of John Milton's life and writing, including biography; literary history; Milton's work in its literary, intellectual, political, or cultural contexts; Milton's influence on or relationship to other writers; and the history of critical response to his work. Hardcover is un-jacketed.

Synopsis:

This volume of ten essays is a multi-author collection of postmodern biographical studies of Milton. It paves the way for a revisionist understanding of how, why and where multiple presences of Milton appear in his writings in ways previously unimagined. As a reaction to traditional biographical study, which stresses the documented and documentary life of an author, these essays instead probe the interior life of Milton by identifying its psychic traces in his writings, and then examining their significance. This type of study leads to citations of evidence and means of interpretation - furnishing critical models for postmodern biographical study. Comprehensive in their coverage, the essays treat many of the poems in the 1645 edition, including "Paradise Lost", "Paradise Regained" and "Samson Agonistes".