Milton and Questions of History Essays by Canadians Past and Present

Name: Milton and Questions of History Essays by Canadians Past and Present
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ISBN: 9781442643925

ISBN-10: 1442643927

ISBN-13: 9781442643925

Edition: 2012

Authors: Feisal Mohamed, Mary Nyquist

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Milton and Questions of Historyconsiders the contribution of several classic studies of Milton written by Canadians in the twentieth century. It contemplates whether these might be termed a coherent ‘school’ of Milton studies in Canada and it explores how these concerns might intervene in current critical and scholarly debates on Milton and, more broadly, on historicist criticism in its relationship to renewed interest in literary form.The volume opens with a selection of seminal articles by noted scholars including Northrop Frye, Hugh McCallum, Douglas Bush, Ernest Sirluck, and A.S.P. Woodhouse. Subsequent essays engage and contextualize these works while incorporating fresh intellectual…

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List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 9/7/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



Acknowledgments


A Note on Texts


Introduction



Reprints



The Modern Reaction to Milton




From the Introduction to Puritanism and Liberty




Literature as Context: Milton's Lycidas




Milton and Figurative Interpretation of the Bible




Paradise Lost




Areopagitica and a Forgotten Licensing Controversy




'…And on His Crest Sat Horror': Eighteenth-Century Interpretations of Milton's Sublimity and his Satan



Reflection



The Study of Milton at the University of Toronto in the Mid-Twentieth Century



New Articles



Douglas Bush in His Time and Ours




Radical Company: Milton, the Nostalgia of (Post-) War Criticism, and the Case of A.S.P. Woodhouse's Puritanism and Liberty




Milton and the Deist Prelude to Liberalism




Milton as Political Prophet: The Readie and Easie Way




Northrop Frye, Lycidas, and the 'Intense Inane' of History




Fielding, Jonson, and the Critique of High Mimesis in Paradise Lost




Milton Takes the Veil




Historical Appearance in Areopagitica




Ibn Tufayl's Hayy and Milton's Adam




Ludlow Revisited: Milton and Eco-Justice



Milton in the Far North: An Afterword



Contributors


Index