Milton and the Idea of Woman

Milton and the Idea of Woman PDF Author: Julia M. Walker
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Milton and the Idea of Woman

Milton and the Idea of Woman PDF Author: Julia M. Walker
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Milton and Gender

Milton and Gender PDF Author: Catherine Gimelli Martin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139442813
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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Milton's contempt for women has been accepted since Samuel Johnson's famous Life of the poet. Subsequent critics have long debated whether Milton's writings were anti- or pro-feminine, a problem further complicated by his advocacy of 'divorce on demand' for men. Milton and Gender re-evaluates these claims of Milton as anti-feminist, pointing out that he was not seen that way by contemporaries, but espoused startlingly fresh ideas of marriage and the relations between the sexes. The first two sections of specially commissioned essays in this volume investigate the representations of gender and sexuality in Milton's prose and verse. In the final section, the responses of female readers ranging from George Eliot and Virginia Woolf to lesser-known artists and revolutionaries are brought to bear on Milton's afterlife and reputation. Together, these essays provide a critical perspective on the contested issues of femininity and masculinity, marriage and divorce in Milton's work.

John Milton

John Milton PDF Author: Paul Hammond
Publisher: British Academy Original Paper
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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These essays lead the reader into the political and intellectual worlds within which John Milton wrote his verse and prose, and into the later worlds within which his reputation evolved and fluctuated. The illuminating and entertaining range of perspectives will appeal to specialists and non-specialists alike.

Feminist Milton

Feminist Milton PDF Author: Joseph Wittreich
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501743600
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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The Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce

The Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce PDF Author: John Milton
Publisher:
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Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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A Study of the Place of Women in the Poetry and Prose Works of John Milton

A Study of the Place of Women in the Poetry and Prose Works of John Milton PDF Author: David N. Dickey
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780773477308
Category : Women and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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This study outlines the origins of Milton's idiosyncratic ambivalence towards woman and charts its developmental character in and out of poetry and prose. It includes an introductory survey of influential critical opinion on the subject, including feminist readings.

Milton's Eve

Milton's Eve PDF Author: Diane Kelsey McColley
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost PDF Author: John Milton
Publisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Ten Queens

Ten Queens PDF Author: Milton Meltzer
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613725811
Category : Queens
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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For use in schools and libraries only. Presents essays about ten queens including Esther and Catherine the Great, describing their personal and political natures while explaining how they ruled in their own right, for good or ill, independently of their husbands.

Re-membering Milton

Re-membering Milton PDF Author: Mary Nyquist
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429639244
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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First published in 1987. Passionately praised and equally passionately criticised by contemporary and later writers, the figure of Milton inherited by the twentieth century is by no means unified, despite the appearance of monumental unity his work sometimes acquires in the classroom and in academic criticism. This collection of essays gathers together disparate and often conflicting representations of Milton as author and cultural figure. Critics familiar with the traditions of Milton scholarship and with debates in literary theory reconstruct Milton from evidence provided by his own prose and poetry, by his contemporaries (including some little-known women writers), by Romantics such as Blake and Wordsworth, and, finally, by a tradition of Afro-American writing that reflects Milton's influence in ways previously unexamined by critics. The process of reconstruction can also be seen as a process of "re-membering." The volume draws inspiration from, but also interrogates, the figure used in Areopagita to describe the quest for truth. Likening Truth to the dismembered body of Osiris, Milton urges Truth's friends to seek up and down, gathering "limb by limb" the body scattered through time and space. Re-membering Milton includes work by established critics from both sides of the Atlantic. Together these contributors place Milton and different Milton traditions firmly within the arenas of modem critical debate. As a result, the collection will be of interest to a wide range of readers: scholars concerned with Milton and Renaissance literature and history; advanced undergraduates and graduate students; researchers in women’s studies; and all readers generally concerned with trends in literary and cultural theory.