Jonathon Shears

The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost

Reading against the Grain

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Produktbeschreibung

The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Beginning with a discussion of the role that seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers like Dryden, Johnson and Burke played in formulating the political and spiritual mythology that grew up around Milton, Shears devotes a chapter to each of the major Romantic poets, contextualizing their 'misreadings' of Milton within a range of historical, aesthetic, and theoretical contexts and discourses. By tackling the vexed issue of whether Paradise Lost by its nature makes available and encourages alternate readings or whether misreadings are imposed on the poem from without, Shears argues that the Romantic inclination towards fragmentation and a polysemous aesthetic leads to disrupted readings of Paradise Lost that obscure the theme, or warp the 'grain', of the poem. Shears concludes by examining the ways in which the legacy of Romantic misreading continues to shape critical responses to Milton's epic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9780754662532
• ISBN-10: 0754662535
• Artikelnr.: 31305749

Autorenporträt

Jonathon Shears is a lecturer in English at Keele University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: The romantic legacy of Paradise Lost: an introduction
Milton in the 18th century
Blake
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Interchapter
exploring the metaphor
Byron
Shelley
Keats
Milton in the 20th century
Bibliography
Index.