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050 00 $aPR2367.E8$bM55 1994
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100 1 $aMikics, David,$d1961-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93101790
245 14 $aThe limits of moralizing :$bpathos and subjectivity in Spenser and Milton /$cDavid Mikics.
260 $aLewisburg [Pa.] :$bBucknell University Press ;$aLondon :$bAssociated University Presses,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $avii, 271 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 251-265) and indexes.
505 0 $a1. Pathos and Moralizing in Classical and Renaissance Tradition -- 2. The Faerie Queene, Book 1 -- 3. The Faerie Queene, Book 2 -- 4. The Faerie Queene, Book 3 -- 5. From Spenser to Milton -- 6. Paradise Lost -- 7. Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes -- Index to Works by Spenser and Milton.
520 $aThis book argues that critical tradition has obscured the mutually constitutive relation between the didactic mission of Renaissance epic and the pathos of the epic self.
520 8 $aCritics usually see Spenser and Milton either as poets dedicated to an autonomous aesthetic that dictates indulgence in pathos for its own sake, or as Christian moralists who subordinate pathos to the didactic demands of society. The Romantic tradition that stretches from Keats to Harold Bloom exemplifies the former option.
520 8 $aNeo-Christian, reader response, and new historicist critics assert a contrary, but similarly unbalanced, view by choosing the didactic authority of social custom, tradition, or ideology over the pathos of subjectivity.
520 8 $aResisting attempts to establish an absolute priority for either pathos or moralizing, David Mikics looks to the debate between subjective passions and didactic imperatives as a sign of the complex relation between literary creation and social norms.
520 8 $aIn a study that shies away from new historicist endorsements of the force of normative ideology, as well as late Romantic celebrations of the poetic self, the author finds that Spenser and Milton develop an innovative literary subjectivity under the pressure of the Reformation's moralizing aims.
520 8 $aIncorporating moral force within pathos would allow poetic passion to become a worthy and clearly justifiable public stance. But Spenser and Milton, in their pursuit of this rhetorical ideal, find themselves acknowledging, instead, an enduring disjunction between affect and the discursive forms of public morality which aim to discipline or exploit it.
600 10 $aSpenser, Edmund,$d1552?-1599$xEthics.
650 0 $aEnglish poetry$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102956
650 0 $aEpic poetry, English$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103207
600 10 $aMilton, John,$d1608-1674$xEthics.
650 0 $aSubjectivity in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94009095
650 0 $aPathos in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94007552
650 0 $aEthics in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004075
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR2367.E8$iM55 1994