Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
  • Cited by 27
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
December 2009
Print publication year:
2003
Online ISBN:
9780511483639

Book description

In Milton and Ecology, Ken Hiltner engages with literary, theoretical, and historic approaches to explore the ideological underpinnings of our prevalent environmental crisis. Focusing on Milton's rejection of dualistic theology, metaphysical philosophy, and early-modern subjectivism, Hiltner argues that Milton anticipates certain prevailing essential ecological arguments. Even more remarkable is that Milton was able to integrate these arguments with biblical sources so seamlessly that his interpretative 'Green' reading of scripture has for over three centuries been entirely plausible. This study considers how Milton, from the earliest edition of the Poems, not only sought to tell the story of how through humanity's folly Paradise on earth was lost, but also sought to tell how it might be regained. This intriguing study will be of interest to eco-critics and Milton specialists alike.

Reviews

"...bold and wonderfully suggestive." John Bienz, Mount Union College, Renaissance Quarterly

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
×

Contents

Select bibliography
Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Theologia, ed. and trans. Thomas Gilby and T. C. O'Brien. New York, 1963
Augustine, De Trinitate. Trans. A. W. Haddan, in Works, ed. Marcus Dods. Edinburgh, 1877
Augustine The City of God Against the Pagans, trans. Philip Levine. Cambridge, Mass., 1966
Berry, Wendell. A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural. New York, 1972, 67
Berry, Wendell The Unsettling of America: Cultural and Agricultural. San Francisco, 1977
Berry, Wendell The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural. New York, 1981, 178
Berry, Wendell Recollected Essays: 1965–1980. New York, 1981
Berry, Wendell A Place on Earth. San Francisco, 1983, 317
Berry, Wendell Standing by Words. San Francisco, 1983, 178
Brown, Cedric. John Milton's Aristocratic Entertainments, Cambridge, 1985
Bultmann, Rudolf. Essays Philosophical and Theological, trans. J. C. G. Greig. London, 1955
Bultmann, Rudolf Theology of the New Testament. London, 1965
Bultmann, Rudolf New Testament and Mythology. Trans. Schubert M. Ogden. Philadelphia, 1984
Bush, Douglas. English Literature in the Seventeenth Century, 1600–1660. Oxford, 1962
Byrne, Paul. An Entire Commentary Upon the Whole Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians …, ed. Rev. Thomas Smith. Edinburgh, 1866
Calvin, John. Commentaries on the Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians, Colossians, and the Thessalonians, trans. John Pringle. Grand Rapids, 1948
Caputo, John D. “Heidegger and Theology,” in The Cambridge Companion to Milton, ed. Charles Guignon. Cambridge, 1993
Caputo, John D. “Instants, Secrets, and Singularities: Dealing Death in Kierkegaard and Derrida,” in Kierkegaard and Post/Modernity, ed. Martin J. Matusik and Merold Westphal. Bloomington, 1995
Casey, Edward S. The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History. Berkeley, 1997
Cato, Marcus Porcius. On Agriculture, trans. William Davis Hooper. Cambridge, 1967
Chambers, A. B.The Double Time Scheme in Paradise Regained.” Milton Studies 7 (1975)
Christopher, Georgia B.The Secret Agent in Paradise Regained.” Modern Language Quarterly 41.2 (June 1980)
Chuvin, Pierre. A Chronicle of the Last Pagans, trans. B. A. Archer. Cambridge, 1990
Cohen, Jeremy. Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It: The Ancient and Medieval Career of a Biblical Text. Ithaca, 1989
Cook, Albert. “Imaging in Paradise Regained.” Milton Studies 21 (1985)
Copleston, Frederick Charles. A History of Philosophy, Volume 1. New York, 1993
Cox, John D.Poetry and History in Milton's Country Masque,” English Language Notes 44 (1977)
Cullen, Patrick. Infernal Triad: The Flesh, the World, and the Devil in Spenser and Milton. Princeton, 1974
Culverel, Nathanael. An Elegant and Learned Discourse on the Light of Nature. London 1652
Derrida, Jacques. Of Grammatology, trans. Gayatri Spivak. London, 1974
Derrida, Jacques “Donner la mort,” L'Ethique du don: Jacques Derrida et la pensée du don. Paris, 1992
Derrida, Jacques The Gift of Death. Trans. David Wills. Chicago, 1995
Devall, Bill. Simple in Means, Rich in Ends: Practicing Deep Ecology. Salt Lake City, 1988
Devall, Bill and George Sessions. Deep Ecology. Salt Lake City, 1985
Dodge, Jim. “Living By Life,” CoEvolution Quarterly 32 (Winter 1981)
Donnelly, Phillip J.‘Matter’ Versus Body: The Character of Milton's Monism.” Milton Quarterly 33 (October 1999)
Dreyfus, Hubert L. Being in the World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I. Cambridge, 1991
Dreyfus, Hubert L. “Heidegger on the Connection between Nihilism, Art, Technology, and Politics,” in The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, ed. Charles Guignon. Cambridge, 1993
Duncan, Anthony. The Elements of Celtic Christianity. Shaftesbury, 1992
DuRocher, Richard J.The Wounded Earth in Paradise Lost.” Studies in Philology 93 (1996)
Fallon, Stephen M. Milton Among the Philosophers. Ithaca, 1991
Fish, Stanley. “Inaction and Silence: The Reader in Paradise Regained,” in Calm of Mind: Tercentenary Essays on Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes in Honor of John S. Diekhoff, ed. Joseph Anthony Wittreich, Jr. Cleveland, 1971
Fish, Stanley “Problem Solving in Comus,” in Illustrious Evidence: Approaches to English Literature in the Early Seventeenth Century, ed. and intro. Earl Miner. Berkeley, 1975
Fish, Stanley “Things and Actions Indifferent: the Temptation of Plot in Paradise Regained.” Milton Studies 17 (1983)
Fitter, Christopher. “‘Native Soil’: The Rhetoric of Exile Lament and Exile Consolidation in Paradise Lost.” Milton Studies 20 (1984)
Fletcher, Harris, ed. The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton. Cambridge, Mass., 1941
Foltz, Bruce W. Inhabiting the Earth: Heidegger, Environmental Ethics, and the Metaphysics of Nature. New Jersey, 1995
Forsyth, Neil. “Having Done All to Stand: Biblical and Classical Allusions in Paradise Lost.” Milton Studies 21 (1985)
Freedman, Donald M.The Lady in the Garden: On the Literary Genetics of Milton's Eve.” Milton Studies 35 (1997)
Furman, Wendy and Tufte, Virginia James. “‘Metaphysical Tears’: Carlotta Petrina's Re-Presentations of Paradise Lost, Book IX.” Milton Studies 36 (1998)
Gouwens, David J. Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker. Cambridge, 1996
Grotius, Hugo. Adamus Exul, trans. Watson Kirkconnell, in Kirkconnell, The Celestial Cycle. Toronto, 1952
Gurwitsche, Aaron. Human Encounters in the Social World. Pittsburgh, 1979
Harrison, Robert Pogue. Forests: The Shadow of Civilization. Chicago, 1992
Hartman, Geoffrey H. “Romantic Poetry and the Genius Loci,” in Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays 1958–1970. New Haven, 1970
Haskin, Dayton. Milton's Burden of Interpretation. Philadelphia, 1994
Haskin, Dayton “The Country Path,” trans. Michael Heron in Envoy 3.11 (1950)
Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. New York, 1962
Heidegger, Martin Discourse on Thinking, trans. John M. Anderson and E. Hans Freund. New York, 1966
Heidegger, Martin “Building Dwelling Thinking,” in Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter. New York, 1971
Heidegger, Martin “Language in the Poem,” in On the Way to Language, trans. Peter D. Hertz. New York, 1971
Heidegger, Martin “Only a God Can Save Us,” quoted in an interview for the German Magazine Der Spiegal (31 May 1976)
Heidegger, Martin The Question Concerning Technology, trans. William Lovitt. New York, 1977
Heidegger, Martin “Where Do I Stay in the Provinces,” trans. Thomas J. Sheehan, in Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture 12.3 (Fall 1977)
Heidegger, Martin Nietzsche, Volume 1: The Will to Power as Art, trans. David Farrell Krell. New York, 1979
Heidegger, Martin History of the Concept of Time, trans. Theodore Kiesiel. Bloomington, Ind., 1985
Herenden, Wyman H. From Landscape to Literature: The River and the Myth of Geography. Pittsburgh, 1986
Hoffman, Piotr. “Death, Time, History: Division II of Being and Time,” in The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, ed. Charles Guignon. Cambridge, 1993
Hooker, Richard. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, intro. Christopher Morris. 2 vols. London, 1963
Hoover, A. J. Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and Thought. Westport, 1994
Hughes, Merritt Y.Earth Felt the Wound.” English Language Notes 36 (1969)
Hunter, William B. Jr.The Double Set of Temptations in Paradise Regained.” Milton Studies 14 (1980)
Huttar, Charles A.The Passion of Christ in Paradise Regained.” English Language Notes 19.3 (March 1992)
Irigaray, Luce. “Place, Interval: A Reading of Aristotle, Physics IV,” in An Ethics of Sexual Difference, trans. C. Burke and G. C. Gill. Ithaca, 1993, 35
Jung, Hwa Yol and Petee Jung. “The Way of Ecopiety: A Philosophic Minuet for Ethological Ethics,” in Commonplaces: Essays on the Nature of Place, ed. David W. Black, Donald Kunze, and John Pickles. Lanham, 1989
Kendrick, Walter M.Earth of Flesh, Flesh of Earth: Mother Earth in the Faerie Queen.” Renaissance Quarterly 27 (1974)
Kerrigan, William. The Sacred Complex: On the Psychogenesis of Paradise Lost. Cambridge, Mass., 1983
Kierkegaard, Soren. Christian Discourses and the Lilies of the Field and the Birds of the Air, trans. and intro. Walter Lowrie. London, 1940
Kirkconnell, Watson. The Celestial Cycle. Toronto, 1952
Knott, John. Milton's Pastoral Vision. Chicago, 1971
Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolution. Chicago, 1970
LaChapelle, Delores. Earth Wisdom. Colorado, 1978
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer. Milton's Brief Epic: The Genre, Meaning, and Art of Paradise Regained. Providence, 1966
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer Liddell and Scott's Greek–English Lexicon. Oxford, 1978
Lieb, Michael. The Dialectics of Creation: Patterns of Birth and Regeneration in Paradise Lost. Cambridge, Mass., 1970
Lieb, Michael Poetics of the Holy: A Reading of Paradise Lost. Chapel Hill, 1981
Lieb, Michael “Our Living Dread: The God of Samson Agonistes.” Milton Studies 33 (1996)
Lowenstein, David. Milton and the Drama of History: Historical Visions, Iconoclasm, and the Literary Imagination. Cambridge, 1990
Lowenstein, David Luther's Works, ed. and trans. William Pauk. Philadelphia, 1955
Luther, Martin. Luther: Lectures on Romans, ed. and trans. William Pauk. Philadelphia, 1959
Luther, Martin Selected Writings of Martin Luther, ed. and trans. T. G. Tappert. Philadelphia, 1967
Luther, Martin On the Bondage of the Will, ed. and trans. Philip S. Watson and B. Drewey. Philadelphia, 1969
Mahood, M. M. Poetry and Humanism. New York, 1970
Marino, Gordon D. “Anxiety in The Concept of Anxiety,” in The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, ed. Alstair Hannay and Gordon D. Marino. Cambridge, 1998
Marjara, Harinder Singh. “Analogy in the Scientific Imagery of Paradise Lost.” Milton Studies 26 (1990)
Martz, Louis L. Poet of Exile: A Study of Milton's Poetry. New Haven, 1980
Marxsen, Willi. Introduction to the New Testament, trans. G. Buswell. Oxford, 1968
Mathews, Freya. “Conservation and Self-Realization: A Deep Ecology Perspective.” Environmental Ethics 10 (1988)
McColley, Diane, “Eve's Dream.” Milton Studies 12 (1978)
McColley, Diane Milton's Eve, Urbana, 1983
McColley, Diane A Gust for Paradise. Urbana, 1993
McColley, Diane “Beneficent Hierarchies: Reading Milton Greenly,” in Spokesperson Milton: Voices in Contemporary Criticism, ed. Charles W. Durham and Kristin Pruitt McColgan. Selinsgrove, 1994
McGrath, Alister E. Luther's Theology of the Cross: Martin Luther's Theological Breakthrough. Oxford, 1985
McLaughlin, Andrew. “The Heart of Deep Ecology,” in Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century. Shambhala, 1995
Merchant, Carolyn. The Death of Nature; Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. San Francisco, 1980
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. London, 1966
Milton, John The Works of John Milton, ed. Frank A. Patterson, 18 vols. New York, 1933
Milton, John Complete Prose Works of John Milton, ed. Don M. Wolfe et al. 8 vols. New Haven, 1953–82
Milton, John The Riverside Milton, ed. Roy Flannagan. New York, 1998
Mulryan, John. Through a Glass Darkly: Milton's Reinvention of the Mythological Tradition. Pittsburgh, 1996
Murphy, Raymond. Rationality and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry into a Changing Relationship. Boulder, 1994
Mustazza, Leonard. “Language as Weapon in Milton's Paradise Regained.” Milton Studies 18 (1983)
Naess, Arne. Four Modern Philosophers: Carnap, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Sartre. Chicago, 1965
Naess, Arne “Self-Realization: An Ecological Approach to Being in the World,” in Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century, ed. George Sessions. Boston, 1995
Nagel, Thomas. The View From Nowhere. New York, 1986
Neuse, Richard. “Metamorphosis and Symbolic Action in Comus.” English Language Notes 34 (1967)
Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Portable Nietzsche, trans. Walter Kaufman. New York, 1954
Obertino, James. “Milton's Use of Aquinas in Comus.” Milton Studies 22 (1986)
Oram, William A.The Invocation of Sabrina.” Studies in English Literature 24 (1984)
Partridge, Eric. Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English. London, 1958
Pascal, Blaise. Pensées. Trans. H. F. Stewart. New York, 1967
Percheux, Mother M.Christopher. “Milton and Kairos.” Milton Studies 12 (1978)
Plotinus. Enneads. Trans. A. H. Armstrong. vol. 7. Cambridge, 1984
Poggeler, Otto. “Destruction and Moment,” in Reading Heidegger from the Start: Essays in his Earliest Thought, ed. Theodore Kisiel and John van Buren Albany, 1994
Poole, Roger. “The Unknown Kierkegaard: Twentieth-century Receptions,” in The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, ed. Alstair Hannay and Gordon D. Marino. Cambridge, 1998
Quarles, Francis. Emblemes. Intro. A. D. Cousins. New York, 1991
Rapaport, Herman. Milton and the Postmodern. Lincoln, Neb., 1983
Revard, Stella. Milton and the Tangles of Neaera's Hair: The Making of the 1645 Poems. Columbia, 1997
Rice, Eugene R. Jr. The Renaissance Idea of Wisdom. Cambridge, Mass., 1958
Rushdy, Ashraf H. A.Of Paradise Regained: The Interpretations of a Career.” Milton Studies 24 (1988)
Rushdy, Ashraf H. A. “In Dubious Battle: Skepticism and Fideism in Paradise Regained.” The Huntington Library Quarterly: Studies in English and American History and Literature 53.2 (Spring 1990)
Salandra, Serafino Della. Adamo Caduto, trans. Watson Kirkconnell, in Kirkconnell, The Celestial Cycle. Toronto, 1952
Salandra, Serafino Della Septuaginta, ed. Alfred Rohils. Stuttgart, 1935
Sessions, George. “Western Process Metaphysics Heraclitus, Whitehead, Spinoza,” in Deep Ecology. Salt Lake City, 1985
Sessions, George “Ecocentrism and the Anthropcentic Detour,” in Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century, ed. George Sessions. Boston, 1995
Shawcross, John T.A Note on the Piedmont Massacre.” Milton Quarterly 6 (1972)
Shawcross, John T. Paradise Regained: Worthy T'have Not So Long Unsung. Pittsburgh, 1988
Shepard, Paul. “Ecology and Man – A Viewpoint,” in Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century, ed. George Sessions. Boston, 1995
Shiel, James. Greek Thought and the Rise of Christianity. New York, 1968
Snyder, Gary. “Buddhism and the Possibilities of a Planetary Culture,” Appendix G George Sessions's Deep Ecology. Salt Lake City, 1985
Snyder, Gary “Re-Habitation,” in The Deep Ecology Movement: An Introductory Anthology, ed. Alan Drengson and Yuichi Inoue. Berkeley, 1995
Spanos, William V. Heidegger and Criticism: Retrieving the Cultural Politics of Destruction, foreword Donald E. Pease. Minneapolis, 1993
Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queen. Ed. Edwin Greenlaw. Baltimore, 1933
Spengler, Oswald. The Decline of the West: Perspectives of World History, Volume 2, trans. Charles Francis Atkinson. New York, 1928
Strong, James. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance. Grand Rapids, 1983
Svendsen, Kester. “Milton's Sonnet on the Massacre in Piedmont.” The Shakespeare Association Bulletin 20 (1945)
Swanson, Donald and Mulryan, John. “The Son's Presumed Contempt for Learning in Paradise Regained; a Biblical and Patristic Resolution.” Milton Studies 27 (1991)
Theis, Jeffery S.The Environmental Ethics of Paradise Lost: Milton's Exegesis of Genesis I–III.” Milton Studies 34 (1996)
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden, ed. Joseph W. Krutch. New York, 1962
Tillich, Paul. The Interpretation of History, trans. N. A. Rosetski. New York, 1936
Tillyard, E. M. W. Milton. New York, 1966
Tzu, Lao. Tao Te Ching, trans. Chung-yuan Chang. New York, 1978
Van Buren, Edward John. The Young Heidegger: Rumor of the Hidden King. Bloomington, Ind., 1994
Varro, Marcus Terentius. On Agriculture, trans. William Davis Hooper. Cambridge, 1967
Watts, Alan. “The World is Your Body,” in The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are. New York, 1966
Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, trans. Talcott Parsons. London, 1930
White, Lynn, Jr. “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,” in The Ecocriticism Reader, ed. Cheryl Glotfelty and Harold Fromm. Athens, 1996
Whitman, Jon. “Losing a Position and Taking One: Theories of Place in Paradise Lost.” Milton Studies 29 (1992)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logio-Philosophicus, trans. D. F. Pears and B. F. McGuinness. London, 1961
Woodhouse, A. S. P.Theme and Pattern in Paradise Regained.” University of Toronto Quarterly 25 (1955)
Zwicky, Laurie B.Kairos in Paradise Regained.” English Language Notes 31 (1964)

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Full text views

Total number of HTML views: 0
Total number of PDF views: 0 *
Loading metrics...

Book summary page views

Total views: 0 *
Loading metrics...

* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

Usage data cannot currently be displayed.