Milton Studies: Volume 38 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822941201 ISBN 13: 9780822941200

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000

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.

About this title

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".

About the Author:

Albert C Labriola was a professor of English and Distinguished University Professor at Duquesne University and secretary of the Milton Society of America. He was also the general editor of the Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies book series. He was named the Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America for 2000.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0822941201
• ISBN 13: 9780822941200
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 242
• Editor: Labriola Albert C.