Elizabeth Sauer

Milton, Toleration, and Nationhood

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines how Milton's polemical and imaginative literature intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9781107615199
• ISBN-10: 1107615194
• Artikelnr.: 44637742

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Sauer is Professor of English at Brock University, Canada, and winner of a Killam Research Fellowship from the Canada Council for the Arts. She has published widely on Milton and Early Modern culture, including co-edited collections such as The New Milton Criticism (2012) and Reading the Nation in English Literature (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Note on editions
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. 'Temple-worke': Milton's literary ecclesiology
2. Reduction: civilizing conquests in Ireland
3. Natural law: Milton's post-revolutionary Defences of England
4. Disestablishment: divorce of church and state
5. Geography: spatial poetics
6. Exogamy: 'entercourse' with philistines
Epilogue.