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Author: Stephen B. Dobranski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-01-26
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0521898188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book makes Milton's works accessible and enjoyable by providing engaging and lucid explanations of his life, times and writings.
Author: Stephen B. Dobranski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-01-26
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1316025683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Milton is one of the most important and influential writers in English literary history. The goal of this book is to make Milton's works more accessible and enjoyable by providing a comprehensive overview of the author's life, times and writings. It describes essential details from Milton's biography, explains some of the cultural and historical contexts in which he wrote, offers fresh analyses of his major pamphlets and poems - including Lycidas, Areopagitica and Paradise Lost - and describes in depth traditional and recent responses to his reputation and writings. Separate sections focus on important concepts or key passages from his major works to illustrate how readers can interpret - and get excited about - Milton's writings. This detailed and engaging introduction to Milton will help readers not only better understand the author's life and works but also better appreciate why Milton matters.
Author: Dennis Danielson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-07-22
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1107494184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition contains several new and revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Milton's politics, the social conditions of his authorship and the climate in which his works were published and received, a fresh sense of the importance of his early poems and Samson Agonistes, and the changes wrought by gender studies on the criticism of the previous decade. By contrast with other introductions to Milton, this Companion gathers an international team of scholars, whose informative, stimulating and often argumentative essays will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Milton studies.
Author: Angelica Duran
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2016-02-18
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1444393804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith brevity, depth, and accessibility, this book helps readers to appreciate the works of John Milton, and to understand the great influence they have had on literature and other disciplines. Presents new and authoritative essays by internationally respected Milton scholars Explains how and why Milton’s works established their central place in the English literary canon Structured chronologically around Milton’s major works Also includes a select bibliography and a chronology detailing Milton’s life and works alongside relevant world events Ideal as a first critical work on Milton
Author: Louis Schwartz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-04-28
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1107029465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShort, accessible essays from fifteen recognized Milton specialists touching on the most important topics and themes in Paradise Lost.
Author: Dennis Danielson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-07-22
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521655439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it.
Author: John Broadbent
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1972-03-09
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780521080682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this, the first introductory volume of the Cambridge Milton for Schools and Colleges, Professor Broadbent, the general editor of the series, presents background and introductory material essential to students for a proper understanding of Paradise Lost. Chapters on mythology, the epic, the writing, publication and subsequent editing of PL and on Milton's ideology and world-view, provide the background to the poem as a whole. The second half of the book engages with the poetry at a more detailed level and examines themes, structures, allusion, language, syntax, rhetoric, similes, rhythm and style, always showing the reader how he can best understand and appreciate Milton's usage. Extensive quotation from PL and other works by Milton and others helps to make all clear.
Author: Catherine Gimelli Martin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-01-06
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1139442813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMilton'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.
Author: John Leonard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-06-27
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 1107059852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading critic John Leonard explores the writings of John Milton from his early poetry to his major prose.
Author: Stephen B. Dobranski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-08-28
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521641920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn original study of Milton's authorship and the material production of his texts in relation to the booktrade.
