Catherine Martin

Milton's Italy

Anglo-Italian Literature, Travel, and Connections in Seventeenth-Century England

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book joins a trend toward transnational literary studies and revives a tradition of Anglo-Italian scholarship centering on John Milton. Correcting misperceptions diminishing the international dimensions of his life and work, it surveys Milton's Italianate studies, travels, poetics, politics, and religious convictions. Few contemporary critics have explored the Italian sources of his anti-papal, anti-episcopal, and anti-formalist religious outlook. Relying on Milton's own testimony, this book explores its roots in Dante, Petrarch, Ariosto, and Sarpi. Besides republicanism and theology, equally strong influences treated here include Italian Neoplatonism, cosmology, and romance epic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781138670617
• ISBN-10: 1138670618
• Artikelnr.: 57052389

Autorenporträt

Catherine Gimelli Martin is Professor of English at the University of Memphis, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Italian Self-Fashioning 1. The Canonical Milton and the Myth
of Italy: Problems of Fact and Interpretation 2. Beyond the Alps: Milton's
Anglo-Italian Journey and its Contexts 3. Qualifying Milton's
Anti-Catholicism: the Proto-Protestant Reformers, Trent, and Beyond 4.
Amazing Grace: Milton's Mediation of Reformed and Roman Catholic Doctrine
5. The Republic of Letters and Furores of Inspiration: Neoplatonism in
Milton's Early Latin and English Verse 6. Disarming Grace: The Legacy of
Beatrice and Laura 7. The Italian Context of Milton's Neo-Roman Politics 8.
Milton's Italianate Epic: From Dante to Heroic Romance in "Paradise Lost"
9. The Tragic Music of Samson Agonistes in the Age of Monteverdi