Cambridge Companion to Milton

Name: Cambridge Companion to Milton
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ISBN: 9780521655439

ISBN-10: 0521655439

ISBN-13: 9780521655439

Edition: 2nd 1999 (Revised)

Authors: Dennis Danielson

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An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition contains several new and revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Milton's politics, the social conditions of his authorship and the climate in which his works were published and received, a fresh sense of the importance of his early poems and Samson Agonistes, and the changes wrought by gender studies on the criticism of the previous decade. By contrast with other introductions to Milton, this Companion gathers an international team of…

Book details

List price: $38.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/22/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 313
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.82" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Dennis Danielson is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He is also a member of the Milton Society of America and an associate member of the American Astronomical Society. Danielson's previous books include Milton's Good God: A Study in Literary Theodicy and The Cambridge Companion to Milton (1999).




The life of Milton




Comus




Lycidas




Milton and heroic literature




Milton's epic style: the invocations in Paradise Lost




The genres of Paradise Lost




Language and knowledge in Paradise




The fall of man and Milton's theodicy




Milton's




Milton and the sexes




Milton and the rhetoric of prophecy




Milton's prose




Milton and the reforming spirit




How Milton read the bible: the case of paradise regained




A reading of Samson Agonistes




Milton's literary influence




Milton's place in intellectual history




Reading Milton: a summary of illuminating efforts