Offering a radically transhistorical view of modernity, Lee Morrissey recasts Milton's major late poems as fictions narrating three varying responses to a world in upheaval: adjustment, avoidance and antagonism. This invigorating alternative to traditionally historicist Milton scholarship is simultaneously a prompt to rethink early modern studies.
Offering a radically transhistorical view of modernity, Lee Morrissey recasts Milton's major late poems as fictions narrating three varying responses to a world in upheaval: adjustment, avoidance and antagonism. This invigorating alternative to traditionally historicist Milton scholarship is simultaneously a prompt to rethink early modern studies.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Lee Morrissey is Alumni Distinguished Professor of English at Clemson University, USA. He is the author of The Constitution of Literature: Literacy, Democracy, and Early English Literary Criticism (2008) and From the Temple to the Castle: An Architectural History of English Literature, 1660-1760 (1999), and is a co-author of English Literature in Context (2008, rev. 2nd ed. 2017).
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Introduction: Forms of modernity 1.'Sense variously drawn': On reading Paradise Lost 2. The Reformation of Paradise Lost: Moderating modernity with measurement 3. Paradise Regained: An aesthetic for a new ascetic 4. Samson's modernity: A tragedy of beset manhood Conclusion: 'The modern paradox': Temporal forms of modernity.
Introduction: Forms of modernity 1.'Sense variously drawn': On reading Paradise Lost 2. The Reformation of Paradise Lost: Moderating modernity with measurement 3. Paradise Regained: An aesthetic for a new ascetic 4. Samson's modernity: A tragedy of beset manhood Conclusion: 'The modern paradox': Temporal forms of modernity.
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