Milton Unbound
Controversy and Reinterpretation
- Author: John P. Rumrich, University of Texas, Austin
- Date Published: November 2006
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521032209
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John Milton - heretic, defender of the Cromwellian regicides, epic poet - holds a crucial strategic position on the intellectual and ideological map of literary studies. In this provocative and liberating study, John P. Rumrich contends that contemporary critics, despite differences in methodology, have contributed to the invention of a monolithic or institutional Milton, as censorious preacher, aggressive misogynist, and champion of the emerging bourgeoisie. Rumrich reveals the pressures that have shaped this current critical orthodoxy, and exposes the historical inaccuracies and logical inconsistencies that sustain it. Through analysis of Milton's poetry and prose, and consideration of the historical forces that informed Milton's writing, Rumrich argues instead for a more complex Milton who was able to accommodate uncertainty and doubt.
Read more- Audacious, provocative and liberating reading of Milton's work
- Challenges received view of Milton on gender, cultural and social issues
- Essential reading for any critic of Milton and his work
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521032209
- length: 204 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 11 mm
- weight: 0.311kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface and acknowledgements
Abbreviations and note on translations
1. Introduction: the invented Milton
2. The question of context
3. Responses and their vicissitudes
4. Comus: a fit of the mother
5. The art of generation
6. Culture and anarchy
Notes
Index.
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