Lee Morrissey

Milton's Late Poems (eBook, ePUB)

Forms of Modernity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Upending conventional scholarship on Milton and modernity, Lee Morrissey recasts Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes as narrating three alternative responses to a world in upheaval: adjustment, avoidance and antagonism. Through incisive engagement with narrative, form, and genre, Morrissey shows how each work, considered specifically as a fiction, grapples with the vicissitudes of a modern world characterised more by paradoxes, ambiguities, subversions and shifting temporalities than by any rigid historical periodization. The interpretations made possible by this book are as invaluable as they are counterintuitive, opening new definitions and stimulating avenues of research for Milton students and specialists, as well as for those working in the broader field of early modern studies. Morrissey invites us to rethink where Milton stands in relation to the greatest products of modernity, and in particular to that most modern of genres, the novel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009197120
• Artikelnr.: 66177423

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.