John Milton
Life, Work, and Thought
(Sprache: Englisch)
The first biography of Milton based on original research for 40 years, and first to take account of new thinking about 17th-century England. Milton is seen here as flawed, passionate, ruthless, and ambitious, as well as one of the most accomplished writers...
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The first biography of Milton based on original research for 40 years, and first to take account of new thinking about 17th-century England. Milton is seen here as flawed, passionate, ruthless, and ambitious, as well as one of the most accomplished writers of the time and author of the most influential narrative poem in English.
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This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography. Milton's thought has often been too simply described. The approach here is to interrogate more sceptically notions like puritanism, republicanism, radicalism, and dissent. A more complex story emerges, of Milton's culturally rich but ideologically conformist early decades, and of his radicalisation during the later years of Laudianism. We track the internal dynamics of English puritanism in the 1640s and the impact that has on his own convictions. In the 1650s Milton's thought and beliefs were reconciled to the role as public servant. In the 1660s a renewed confidence carried him towards the completion of his greatest project, Paradise Lost, and his final years were ones of creative fulfilment and renewed political engagement. Amid the discontinuities occasioned by shifting political circumstance, by the exigencies of polemical context, and the diversity of genres in which he wrote, Milton emerged as a major political thinker and significant systematic theologian, as well as the most eloquent prose writer and most accomplished poet of the age. A more human Milton appears in these pages, flawed, self-contractory, self-serving, arrogant, passionate, ruthless, ambitious, and cunning, as well as the literary genius who achieved so much.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „John Milton “
- Introduction
- Part I 1608-1632
- 1: Childhood
- 2: St Paul's School
- 3: Cambridge: the undergraduate years
- 4: Cambridge: the postgraduate years
- Part II 1632-1639
- 5: Hammersmith
- 6: Horton
- 7: Italy
- Part III 1639-49
- 8: The Crisis of Government
- 9: The First Civil War
- 10: The Road to Regicide
- Part IV 1649-1660
- 11: The Purged Parliament
- 12: The Protectorate
- 13: From the Death of Oliver Cromwell to the Restoration
- Part V 1660-67
- 14: Milton in 1660
- 15: Surviving the Restoration
- 16: Plague, Fire and Paradise Lost
- 17: The Sunlit Uplands
- Part VI 1667 and after
- 18: Posthumous Life and Nachlass
- Bibliography
Autoren-Porträt von Gordon Campbell, Thomas N. Corns
Gordon Campbell is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University of Leicester. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He is a former chairman of the English Association and of the Society for Renaissance Studies He has published widely on Milton and on art and architecture, mostly for OUP.Thomas N. Corns is Professor of English at Bangor University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the English Association. He has published six books on Milton and other books on seventeenth-century literature.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Gordon Campbell , Thomas N. Corns
- 2010, 508 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 15,7 x 5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199591032
- ISBN-13: 9780199591039
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.11.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
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Review from previous edition Impressive, rigorous, nuanced... the fullest portrait yet of this brilliant, controversial, and ambitious politician, theologian, and artist. Anchored by impeccable scholarly acumen, this biography supercedes all recent accounts. |s Choice
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This will be the definitive biography for some time...you won't get much better than this. The Guardian
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