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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... figure of the woman writer is what bridges the gap . Women had traditionally been supposed to turn to the spin- ning wheel instead of the pen . In her Lucretius dedication , Hutchinson had tried to integrate the different spheres of ...
... figure of the woman writer is what bridges the gap . Women had traditionally been supposed to turn to the spin- ning wheel instead of the pen . In her Lucretius dedication , Hutchinson had tried to integrate the different spheres of ...
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... figure of a coronary circumcision presented itself as a figure of the virtuous obedience to the law that seemed almost capable of rivaling Crucifixion as a means of justifying fallen man in the eyes of God : preputial circum- cision ...
... figure of a coronary circumcision presented itself as a figure of the virtuous obedience to the law that seemed almost capable of rivaling Crucifixion as a means of justifying fallen man in the eyes of God : preputial circum- cision ...
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... figure of circumcision that not only compelled , but also enabled , Milton to broach the topic of Atonement . As a painful procedure to be performed on eight- day - old infant boys , it presented itself as an image for that aspect of ...
... figure of circumcision that not only compelled , but also enabled , Milton to broach the topic of Atonement . As a painful procedure to be performed on eight- day - old infant boys , it presented itself as an image for that aspect of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
2 John Milton Lucy Hutchinson and the Republican | 37 |
Elizabeth Singer Rowes | 64 |
Copyright | |
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