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Milton and the Climates of Reading

Essays

By: Balachandra Rajan,Joseph A. Wittreich

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Milton and the Climates of Reading

Essays

By: Balachandra Rajan,Joseph A. Wittreich

Scholarly criticism of John Milton's writings has in recent decades been distinguished by a methodological prudence that separates it from other forms of literary scholarship. One critic, however, stands apart from his colleagues and has consistently offered a corrective to this prudence: Balachandra Rajan. In Milton and the Climates of Reading, Elizabeth Sauer undertakes the daunting work of bringing together a selection of Rajan's essays on Milton, some hitherto unpublished, in order to chart trends and changes in Milton scholarship over the last sixty years and to consider future directions in this vital field of inquiry. This collection, which is framed by Sauer's insightful introduction and an eloquent afterword by Joseph Wittreich, demonstrates Rajan's critical range and his ability to adapt to 'new' ideas, always reformulating them in his own characteristic and individual manner. Milton and the Climates of Reading offers timely statements about the ways in which Milton's writings not only addressed their own time, but also speak profoundly and powerfully to ours.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802091059

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9780802091055

Interpreting SAMSON AGONISTES

By: Joseph Anthony Wittreich

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Interpreting SAMSON AGONISTES

By: Joseph Anthony Wittreich

Joseph Wittreich reveals Samson to be an intensely political work that reflects the heroic ambitions and failings of the Puritan Revolution and the tragic ambiguities of the era. He sees in the work not the purveyance of Medieval and early Renaissance typological associations but an interrogation of them and a consequent movement away from them. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400854172

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9781400854172

The Apocalypse in English Renaissance Thought and Literature

Patterns, Antecedents, and Repercussions

By: C. A. Patrides,Joseph Anthony Wittreich

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The Apocalypse in English Renaissance Thought and Literature

Patterns, Antecedents, and Repercussions

By: C. A. Patrides,Joseph Anthony Wittreich

This remarkable collection of original essays by a distinguished group of American and English scholars explores attitudes toward apocalyptic thought and the Book of Revelation as they were reflected, over many centuries, in theological discourse, political activity, and artistic and literary endeavors.

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468

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Manchester University Press

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0719017300

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9780719017308

Twentieth-Century Blake Criticism

Northrop Frye to the Present

By: Joseph P. Natoli

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Twentieth-Century Blake Criticism

Northrop Frye to the Present

By: Joseph P. Natoli

First published in 1982 this book provides a bibliography of commentary, criticism, and scholarship on the works of William Blake. It covers the period from Northrop Frye’s Fearful Symmetry in 1947 to 1980. The criticism is organised according to eleven classifications in order to help direct the research of students and scholars and each chapter is preceded by an introductory essay in order to guide the reader.

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Routledge

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131738119X

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9781317381198

Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare and Milton

Election and Grace as Constitutional in Early Modern Literature and Beyond

By: Joseph S. Jenkins

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Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare and Milton

Election and Grace as Constitutional in Early Modern Literature and Beyond

By: Joseph S. Jenkins

Reading God's will and a man's Last Will as ideas that reinforce one another, this study shows the relevance of England's early modern crisis, regarding faith in the will of God, to current debates by legal academics on the theory of property and its succession. The increasing power of the dead under law in the US, the UK, and beyond-a concern of recent volumes in law and social sciences-is here addressed through a distinctive approach based on law and humanities. Vividly treating literary and biblical battles of will, the book suggests approaches to legal constitution informed by these dramas and by English legal history. This study investigates correlations between the will of God in Judeo-Christian traditions and the Last Wills of humans, especially dominant males, in cultures where these traditions have developed. It is interdisciplinary, in the sense that it engages with the limits of several fields: it is informed by humanities critical theory, especially Benjaminian historical materialism and Lacanian psychoanalysis, but refrains from detailed theoretical considerations. Dramatic narratives from the Bible, Shakespeare, and Milton are read as suggesting real possibilities for alternative inheritance (i.e., constitutional) regimes. As Jenkins shows, these texts propose ways to alleviate violence, violence both personal and political, through attention to inheritance law.

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272

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Routledge

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131711664X

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Raising Milton's Ghost

John Milton and the Sublime of Terror in the Early Romantic Period

By: Joseph Crawford

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Raising Milton's Ghost

John Milton and the Sublime of Terror in the Early Romantic Period

By: Joseph Crawford

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Why was Milton so important to the Romantics? How did 'Milton the Regicide', a man often regarded in his lifetime as a dangerous traitor and heretic, become 'the Sublime Milton'? The late eighteenth century saw a sudden and to date almost undocumented craze for all things Miltonic, the symptoms of which included the violation of his grave and the sale of his hair and bones as relics, the republication of all his works including his political tracts in unprecedented numbers, the appearance of the poet in the works, letters, dreams and visions of all the major British Romantic poets and even frequent reports of hauntings by his ghost. Drawing on the traditions of cultural, intellectual and bibliographic history as well as recent trends in literary scholarship on the romantic period, Joseph Crawford explores the dramatic shift in Milton's cultural status after 1790. He builds on a now significant literature on Milton's legacy to the Romantic poets, uncovering the cultural historical background against which the Romantics and their contemporaries encountered and interacted with Milton's reputation and works.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1849664196

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Between Two Pillars

The Hero's Plight in Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained

By: Joseph Gerson Mayer

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Between Two Pillars

The Hero's Plight in Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained

By: Joseph Gerson Mayer

Between Two Pillars breaks free of the regenerist-revisionist controversy over Samson Agonistes by discerning a dialectical opposition between Samson's irrevocable election by God and his subjection--instanced by his slavery--to a fallen, un-Godly order. Complementing God's act of election is Samson's genius for inventing exploits that prove him God's mighty minister. In every episode, it is evident that his heroic drive and inventive powers persist, even though his helplessness absolutely forecloses a career of heroic action.The contradiction of his situation is both epitomized and transcended by his destruction of the temple. Performed in an act of servile idolatry, and horribly violent, it confirms his subjection to sin; yet, by destroying the theater of his servility, it asserts his identity of God champion. This reading is introduced by chapters on Samson's magnanimous pride, his violence, and the characteristic style of his exploits. It is then elaborated by close readings of each episode. A chapter on three late sonnets confirms the dialectical cast of Milton's imagination. Author Joseph Mayer provides a concluding section on Paradise Regained, which corroborates his reading of Samson Agonistes by showing parallels between the two works.

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278

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University Press of America

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0761829725

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9780761829720

Feminist Milton

By: Joseph Wittreich

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Feminist Milton

By: Joseph Wittreich

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Cornell University Press

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1501743600

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9781501743603

Tennyson and the Text

The Weaver's Shuttle

By: Gerhard Joseph

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Tennyson and the Text

The Weaver's Shuttle

By: Gerhard Joseph

This 1992 study of Tennyson evolves its themes from the weaving figure of The Lady of Shalott, which becomes a kind of parable for the author and his texts. Taking its derivation from the Latin texere, 'to weave', Professor Joseph's focus on poetic texture and a sense of textuality leads to a consciousness of his own critical and interpretative weaving, while revealing a pattern in the fabric of Tennyson's work. This procedure brings together a theory of perception, developed in the first part of this study, with an analysis of the gendering of Tennyson's characters in the second part, and engages with the methodologies of deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and gender theory. The weaving metaphor also opens up a key theoretical issue regarding Tennyson's poetics: is the textual shuttle managed by the controlling hand of a historically definable author, or is the poetic weaver 'cursed' like the Lady of Shalott to suffer a mystifying doom at the 'unseen hand' of an all-pervasive textuality that occludes authorial intention?

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Cambridge University Press

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0521413907

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9780521413909

The Homoerotics of Orientalism

By: Joseph A. Boone

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The Homoerotics of Orientalism

By: Joseph A. Boone

The place of the Middle East in European heterosexual fantasy is well documented in the works of Edward Said and others, yet few have considered the male Anglo-European (and, later, American) writers, artists, travelers, and thinkers compelled to represent what, to their eyes, seemed to be an abundance of erotic relations between men in the Islamicate world. Whether feared or desired, the mere possibility of sexual contact with or between men in the Middle East has covertly underwritten much of the appeal and practice of the enterprise of Orientalism, frequently repeating yet just as often upending its assumed meanings. Traces of this undertow abound in European and Middle Eastern fiction, diaries, travel literature, erotica, ethnography, painting, photography, film, and digital media. Joseph Allen Boone explores these vast representations, linking European art to Middle Eastern sources largely unfamiliar to Western audiences and, in some cases, reproduced in this volume for the first time.

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Columbia University Press

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0231151101

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9780231151108

The Author's Due

Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright

By: Joseph Loewenstein

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The Author's Due

Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright

By: Joseph Loewenstein

The Author's Due offers an institutional and cultural history of books, the book trade, and the bibliographic ego. Joseph Loewenstein traces the emergence of possessive authorship from the establishment of a printing industry in England to the passage of the 1710 Statute of Anne, which provided the legal underpinnings for modern copyright. Along the way he demonstrates that the culture of books, including the idea of the author, is intimately tied to the practical trade of publishing those books. As Loewenstein shows, copyright is a form of monopoly that developed alongside a range of related protections such as commercial trusts, manufacturing patents, and censorship, and cannot be understood apart from them. The regulation of the press pitted competing interests and rival monopolistic structures against one another—guildmembers and nonprofessionals, printers and booksellers, authors and publishers. These struggles, in turn, crucially shaped the literary and intellectual practices of early modern authors, as well as early capitalist economic organization. With its probing look at the origins of modern copyright, The Author's Due will prove to be a watershed for historians, literary critics, and legal scholars alike.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226490416

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9780226490410

Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy

By: Joseph Luzzi

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Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy

By: Joseph Luzzi

This groundbreaking study considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination.

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Yale University Press

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0300151780

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9780300151787

Poetry Explication

A Checklist of Interpretation Since 1925 of British and American Poems Past and Present

By: Joseph Marshall Kuntz,Nancy Conrad Martinez

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Poetry Explication

A Checklist of Interpretation Since 1925 of British and American Poems Past and Present

By: Joseph Marshall Kuntz,Nancy Conrad Martinez

This volume presents a comprehensive index of poetry explications printed during the period 1925-1977, inclusive. Poems selected are of fewer than five hundred lines, and arranged alphabetically by author and title. Poets chosen must be generally recognized by the reading public. Explications must concern the whole poem, not the poet or circumstances of composition, and must not be from a source devoted to a single author. Explications are sourced from general critical assessments of currently published poetry and literary periodicals.

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Boston, Mass. : G. K. Hall

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0816183139

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9780816183135

Interpreting SAMSON AGONISTES

By: Joseph Anthony Wittreich

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Interpreting SAMSON AGONISTES

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Princeton University Press

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1400854172

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Feminist Milton

By: Joseph Wittreich

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Feminist Milton

By: Joseph Wittreich

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Cornell University Press

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1501743600

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Global Milton and Visual Art

By: Angelica Duran,Mario Murgia

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Global Milton and Visual Art

By: Angelica Duran,Mario Murgia

Global Milton and Visual Art showcases the aesthetic appropriation and reinterpretation of the works and legend of the early modern English poet and politician John Milton in diverse eras, regions, and media: book illustrations, cinema, digital reworkings, monuments, painting, sculpture, shieldry, and stained glass. It innovates an inclusive approach to Milton’s literary art, especially his masterpiece Paradise Lost, in global contemporary aesthetics via intertextual and interdisciplinary relations. The fifteen purposefully-brief chapters, 103 illustrations, and 64 supplemental web-images reflect the great richness of the topics and the diverse experiences and expertise of the contributors. Part I: Panoramas, provides overviews and key contexts; Part II: Cameos offers different perspectives of the varied afterlives of the most widely-circulating illustrations of Paradise Lost, those by Gustave Doré; Part III: Textual Close-ups focuses on a rich variety of book illustrations, from centuries-old elite engravings to a twenty-first century graphic novel; and Part IV: A Prospect beyond Books, explores visual media outside of books that manifest powerful connections, direct and indirect, with Milton’s works and legend.

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