Milton and the Terms of Liberty

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-85991-639-4
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 236 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Studies in Renaissance Literature

Essays on Milton's developing ideas on liberty, and his republicanism, as expressed in his writings over his lifetime.

In his Second Defence of the English People (1654), reflecting on his career as a prose writer, prior to embarking on the composition of Paradise Lost, John Milton identified 'three varieties of liberty without whichcivilized life is scarcely possible, namely ecclesiastical liberty, domestic or personal liberty, and civil liberty'. In retrospect he was able to find in his earlier writings a systematic exposition of the grounds of freedom, and a commitment to expanding its domain through publication and polemic. Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings, and the contested development of his republicanism, through his career as a civil servant and prose writer, through his great poems, to his posthumous reputation and the appropriation of his works; and they extend laterally to typologies of liberty, the realm of law, prosody, and religious faith and persecution.Winner of the 2002 Irene Samuel Prize for best composite work onMilton. The contributors are: THOMAS CORNS, JOHN CREASER, MARTIN DZELZAINIS, KATSUHIRO ENGETSU, STEPEHN FALLON, BARBARA LEWALSKI, JANEL MUELLER, CHRISTOPHER ORCHARD, GRAHAM PARRY, JOAD RAYMOND, JOHN RUMRICH, QUENTIN SKINNER, ANNE-JULIA ZWIERLEIN.GRAHAM PARRY is Professor of English, University of York; JOAD RAYMOND lectures in the School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parry, Graham

Raymond, Joad

Weitere Mitwirkende

Engetsu, Katsuhiro

Corns, Thomas

Dzelzainis, Martin

Creaser, John

Skinner, Quentin

Zwierlein, Anne-Julia

Orchard, Christopher

Rumrich, John

Raymond, Joad

Mueller, Janel

Fallon, Stephen

Lewalski, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

John Milton and the Politics of Slavery - Quentin Skinner
Milton before 'Lycidas' - Thomas Corns
Prosody and Liberty in Milton and Marvell - John Creaser
'In These Western Parts of the Empire': Milton and Roman Law - Martin Dzelzainis
The King is a Thing - Joad Raymond
'in time of warre. our Language is all corrupt with military Tearms': The Politics of Martial Metaphors in Post-Regicide EnglandPost-Regicide England - Christopher Orchard
Alexander More Reads Milton: Self-Representation and Anxiety in Milton's Defences - Stephen Fallon
Stylometry and the Provenance of De doctrina christiana - John Rumrich
The Figure and the Ground: Samson as a Hero of London Nonconformity, 1662-1667 - Janel Mueller
The Publication of the King's Privacy: Paradise Regained and Of True Religion in Restoration England - Katsuhiro Engetsu
'To try, and teach the erring Soul': Milton's Last Seven Years - Barbara Lewalski
Pandemonic Panoramas: Surveying Milton's 'vain empires' in the Long Eighteenth Century - Anne-Julia Zwierlein

Über Autor(innen)

Raymond, Joad
JOAD RAYMOND is Professor of Renaissance Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK.

Parry, Graham
GRAHAM PARRY is Professor of English and Related Literature at University of York, York, UK.

Raymond, Joad
JOAD RAYMOND is Professor of Renaissance Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK.