Loewenstein / Milton John Milton Prose

Major Writings on Liberty, Politics, Religion, and Education
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-32566-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 608 Seiten, E-Book

Regarded by many as the equal of Shakespeare in poetic imaginationand expression, Milton was also a prolific writer of prose,applying his potent genius to major issues of domestic, religiousand political liberty. This superbly annotated newpublication is the most authoritative single-volume anthology yetof Milton's major prose works.
* Uses Milton's original language, spelling andpunctuation
* Freshly and extensively annotated
* Notes provide unrivalled contextual analysis as well asilluminating the wealth of Milton's allusions and references
* Will appeal to a general readership as well as to scholarsacross the humanities

Autoren/Hrsg.

Milton, John

Loewenstein, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on This Edition and Abbreviations viii
Acknowledgements ix
List of Illustrations x
Chronology xi
Introduction xvi
MILTON'S PROSE TEXTS
1. Prolusions: 1
Prolusion VI 3
Prolusion VII 13
2. Of Reformation 22
3. The Reason of Church-Government Urg'd against Prelaty(selections) 61
4. An Apology Against a Pamphlet (selections) 92
5. The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce 103
6. Of Education 170
7. Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton 181
8. Tetrachordon (selections) 214
9. The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates 243
10. Eikonoklastes (selections) 275
11. A Second Defence of the English People 319
12. A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes377
13. Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to RemoveHirelings out of the Church 398
14. The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a FreeCommonwealth 426
15. Of True Religion, Hæresie, Schism, andToleration 448
16. Selections from Milton's Private Letters 459
17. De Doctrina Christiana (selections) 470
18. The Life of Mr. John Milton by Edward Phillips558
Select Bibliography 573

Über Autor(innen)

David Loewenstein is Helen C. White Professor of Englishand the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,USA. His books include Representing Revolution in Miltonand his Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in RadicalPuritanism (2001), which received the Milton Society ofAmerica's James Holly Hanford Award for DistinguishedBook. He is the author of Treacherous Faith: The Specter ofHeresy in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (2013).He has co-edited The Cambridge History of Early Modern EnglishLiterature (2002), Early Modern Nationalism andMilton's England (2008), and The Complete Works ofGerrard Winstanley (2009). He is an Honored Scholar of theMilton Society of America.