David Ainsworth

Milton and the Spiritual Reader

Reading and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England

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Produktbeschreibung

Milton and the Spiritual Reader examines spiritual reading in Areopagitica, Eikonoklastes, De Doctrina Christiana, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained, comparing Miltonic spiritual reading with that of two of his Puritan contemporaries, Richard Baxter and George Fox.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9780415883900
• ISBN-10: 0415883903
• Artikelnr.: 30624172

Autorenporträt

David Ainsworth is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama. He received his degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: "Thou art sufficient to judge aright:" Spiritual Reading in
Areopagitica
Chapter Two: Spiritual Reading in Milton's Eikonoklastes
Chapter Three: Godly Reading in Milton's De Doctrina Christiana
Chapter Four: "There plant eyes": Spiritual Interpretation and Reading in
Paradise Lost
Chapter Five: The Reader Within: Spiritual Interpretation in Paradise
Regained
Chapter Six: Baxter, Fox, Winstanley and Miltonic Spiritual Reading
Notes
Bibliography
Index