The first published book on John Milton's masculinities, this study shows how a revolutionary poet preached liberty yet elevated manly authority. Building on his era's practices of war, education, socialization, and political marriage, Milton's aggressive, ambivalent masculinities are exposed as strategically and emphatically self-serving.
The first published book on John Milton's masculinities, this study shows how a revolutionary poet preached liberty yet elevated manly authority. Building on his era's practices of war, education, socialization, and political marriage, Milton's aggressive, ambivalent masculinities are exposed as strategically and emphatically self-serving.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Elizabeth Hodgson is Professor of English literature at the University of British Columbia. She has published Gender and the Sacred Self in John Donne (1999), Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance (2015) and many articles and book chapters on English Renaissance literary cultures.
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Introduction 1. Peer review: the Ludlow Masque 2: Nearly headless husbands: the divorce tracts 3: Chatting up: Paradise Lost 4: True warfaring Christian: Aereopagitica & Paradise Regained 5: Lean on me: Samson Agonistes Postlude: pity the tale of Milton.