Karen L. Edwards

Milton and the Natural World

Science and Poetry in Paradise Lost

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines Paradise Lost's depiction of Eden in the light of contemporary scientific natural history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 589g
• ISBN-13: 9780521643597
• ISBN-10: 0521643597
• Artikelnr.: 21955728

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Re-reading the Book of the World: 1. Corrupting experience: Satan and Eve
2. Experimentalists and the book of the world
3. The place of experimental reading
Part II. Reforming Animals: 4. Milton's complicated serpents
5. New uses for monstrous lore
6. From rarities to representatives
7. Rehabilitating the political animal
Part III. Transplanting the Garden. 8. Naming and not naming
9. Botanical discretion
10. Flourishing colors
11. The balm of life
Bibliography
Index.