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Milton among the Puritans

the case for historical revisionism

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An edition of Milton among the Puritans (2010)

Milton among the Puritans

the case for historical revisionism

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Solidly grounded in Milton's prose works and the long history of Milton scholarship, Milton among the Puritans: The Case for Historical Revisionism challenges many received ideas about Milton's brand of Christianity, philosophy, and poetry. It does so chiefly by retracing his history as a great "Puritan poet" and reexamining the surprisingly tenuous Whig paradigm upon which this history has been built. Catherine Martin not only questions the current habit of "lumping" Milton with the religious Puritans but agrees with a long line of literary scholars who find his values and lifestyle markedly inconsistent with their beliefs and practices. Pursuing this argument, Martin carefully reexamines the whole spectrum of seventeenth-century English Puritanism from the standpoint of the most recent and respected scholarship on the subject. Martin also explores other, more secular sources of Milton's thought, including his Baconianism, his Christian Stoic ethics, and his classical republicanism; she establishes the importance of these influences through numerous direct references, silent but clear citations, and typical tropes. All in all, Milton among the Puritans presents a radical reassessment of Milton's religious identity; it shows that many received ideas about the "Puritan Milton" are neither as long-established as most scholars believe nor as historically defensible as most literary critics still assume, and resituates Milton's great poems in the period when they were written, the Restoration. - Publisher.

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Ashgate
Language
English

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Milton among the Puritans: The Case for Historical Revisionism
2016, Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge
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Milton among the Puritans: the case for historical revisionism
2010, Ashgate
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Table of Contents

Carlyle's ghost
A brief history of the "Puritan revolution"
Milton among the Puritans
Vocation, prophecy, and secular reform in the early poems and prose
The humanist ethics, metaphysics, and aesthetics of Milton's Spenserian masque
Mid-century debates on law, religion, rhetoric, education, and science
The secular cosmology and anthropology of Milton's civilized Eden
The neoclassical poetics of Paradise regained
The classical republican experience of defeat in Samson agonistes
Milton and the early development of toleration in England.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Burlington, VT

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
821/.4
Library of Congress
PR3592.R4 M26 2010, PR3592.P8, PR3592.R4 M26 2010eb

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xvi, 360 p.
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24539071M
ISBN 10
1409408566
ISBN 13
9781409408567, 9781409419273
LCCN
2010025637
OCLC/WorldCat
754793702, 643763245

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