Milton and the Grounds of ContentionMark R. Kelley, Michael Lieb, John T. Shawcross Both in his life and in his writings, Milton became the very embodiment of contention. He was an embattled figure whose ideas provoked endless controversy from his own time to the present. The ten new essays in this volume examine major issues that have become the grounds of contention in the study and interpretation of Milton and his works. These issues include the significance of women writers and readers, the nature of Milton's influence and the reception of his works, the gendered bias that informs the portrayal of Eve, the vexed subject of choice and election that underlies the character of Samson, and the taint of heresy that Milton's theological beliefs are said to betray. In their engagement with these issues, the scholars represented here concern themselves with such figures as Edmund Burke, Lucy Huitchinson and Elizabeth Singer Rowe. Their essays explre the concept of 'femme covert', the authorship of 'De Doctrina Christiana', the significance of Milton's failure to pursue the Passion and Crucifiction of Jesus, and the place of the Socinian controversy in Milton and his heirs. |
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... choices , to find their own relationships to Milton's liberal God . In this essay I want to explore two related premises : that Samson is preeminently about choice , and that Milton invites readers to make choices as part of their own ...
... choices , to find their own relationships to Milton's liberal God . In this essay I want to explore two related premises : that Samson is preeminently about choice , and that Milton invites readers to make choices as part of their own ...
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... choice , along with related questions of reason , fate and agency , as recurrent and persistent . The play's concern with choice and with the recognition and exercise of free will is consistent with Milton's own lifelong interest in ...
... choice , along with related questions of reason , fate and agency , as recurrent and persistent . The play's concern with choice and with the recognition and exercise of free will is consistent with Milton's own lifelong interest in ...
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... choice of action and election as God's choice of Samson at last come together . Among the literary techniques in Samson that tend to invite or provoke the reader to make choices ( as well as to observe the process of Samson's choices ) ...
... choice of action and election as God's choice of Samson at last come together . Among the literary techniques in Samson that tend to invite or provoke the reader to make choices ( as well as to observe the process of Samson's choices ) ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
2 John Milton Lucy Hutchinson and the Republican | 37 |
Elizabeth Singer Rowes | 64 |
Copyright | |
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