Milton and the Ends of Time
Milton and the Ends of Time
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USDA team of leading international scholars addresses Milton's treatment of millennial and apocalyptic ideas, topics of major importance in the religious and philosophical thought of his day. With wide-ranging ramifications for the interpretation of Milton's poetry and prose, his speculations on the ends of time played a vital part in shaping the Miltonic quest and vision. This collection provides a broad range of approaches to studying Milton, including the visual arts, politics and theology, and science.
- Examines the fundamental topic of Milton's conception of time
- Offers perspectives on Milton's writing and his political and religious thought
- Written by an international team of specialists
Reviews & endorsements
"This is a fascinating, carefully argued book, taking Milton's 'monism' in a different direction, and it will need to be engaged by those who write on or teach Milton." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
"The high quality and diverse disciplines represented in the volume will appeal to scholars in many fields as well as stimlating new readings by Miltonists. The work adds a necessary contribution to the complex field of seveteenth-century eschatology." Renaissance Quarterly, Margaret J. Arnold
Product details
February 2011Paperback
9780521180047
266 pages
229 × 152 × 14 mm
0.36kg
Available
Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: 'Those thoughts that wander through eternity' Juliet Cummins
- Part I. Millennium:
- 1. Milton and the Millennium Barbara K. Lewalski
- 2. Mede, Milton and More: Christ's College Millenarians Sarah Hutton
- 3. Milton and Millenarianism: from the Nativity Ode to Paradise Regained Stella P. Revard
- 4. Astronomical signs in Paradise Lost: Milton, Ophiucus and the Millennial debate Malabika Sarkar
- 5. The Millennial moment: Milton vs 'Milton' William B. Hunter
- 6. Confusion: the apocalypse, the millennium John T. Shawcross
- Part II. Apocalypse:
- 7. John Martin's apocalyptic illustrations to Paradise Lost Beverley Sherry
- 8. The enclosed garden and the apocalypse: immanent versus transcendent time in Milton and Marvell Catherine Gimelli Martin
- 9. Matter and apocalyptic transformations in Paradise Lost Juliet Cummins
- 10. 'New heavens, new earth': apocalypse and the loss of sacramentality in the Postlapsarian books of Paradise Lost Claude N. Stulting, Jr
- 11. The apocalypse in Paradise Regained Ken Simpson
- 12. Inspiration and melancholy in Samson Agonistes Karen Edwards
- Afterword: 'The Time is Come' David Loewenstein.
