Milton and the Jews (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Brooks, Douglas A.

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Produktbeschreibung

The issue of the Jews deeply engaged Milton throughout his career, and not necessarily in ways that make for comfortable or reassuring reading today. While Shakespeare and Marlowe, for example, critiqued rather than endorsed racial and religious prejudice in their writings about Jews, the same cannot be said for Milton. The scholars in this collection confront a writer who participated in the sad history of anti-Semitism, even as he appropriated Jewish models throughout his writings. Well grounded in solid historical and theological research, the essays both collectively and individually offer an important contribution to the debate on Milton and Judaism. This book will be of interest not only to scholars of Milton and of seventeenth-century literature, but also to historians of the religion and culture of the period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511474040
• Artikelnr.: 38197678

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Milton and the Jews: 'A Project never so seasonable, and
necessary, as now!' Douglas A. Brooks; 2. England, Israel, and the Jews in
Milton's prose, 1649-60 Achsah Guibbory; 3. Milton's peculiar nation
Elizabeth Sauer; 4. Making use of the Jews: Milton and philosemitism
Nicholas von Maltzahn; 5. Milton and Solomonic education Douglas Trevor; 6.
'He is imitating nobody, and he is inimitable': T. S. Eliot and the
anti-Semitic aesthetics of the Milton controversy Matthew Biberman; 7. A
metaphorical Jew: the carnal, the literal and the Miltonic Linda
Tredennick; 8. 'The people of Asia and with them the Jews': Israel, Asia,
and England in Milton's writings Rachel Trubowitz; 9. Returning to Egypt:
'the Jew', 'the Turk', and the English Republic Benedict Robinson; Select
bibliography; Index.