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, andof 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.
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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 the University of Leicester. The subject of Northern Renaissance art is one of his principal interests. As an art historian he has written widely on Renaissance art and architecture (notably in his award-winning Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance). He has published widely on many subjects relevant to the Renaissance, including literature and history as well as art, and has a wealth of editorial experience, much of it for OUP, for which he has edited both journals and reference books, of which the most recent is Renaissance Art and Architecture (2004). His scholarly work has been recognized by the award of a D.Litt from the University of York and an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest, by his election as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and as a Corresponding Fellow of the South African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Gordon Campbell , Thomas N. Corns
- 2008, 476 Seiten, 25 Abbildungen, Maße: 16,4 x 24,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199289840
- ISBN-13: 9780199289844
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Englisch
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Impressive, rigorous, nuanced...the fullest portrait yet...Anchored by impeccable scholarly acumen, this biography supersedes all recent accounts. Choice 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. Choice An illuminating accretion of historical and personal detail; it is an assiduous study of a difficult man. Sophie Read, Times Higher Education Supplement Lucid and engaging. Sophie Read, Times Literary Supplement A book of permanent value...tight, learned, packed biography. Colin Burrow, Literary Review Exceptionally good...tight, learned, packed biography. Colin Burrow, Literary Review Marvellous new biography...This is an enthralling, rewarding read. Marcus Nevitt, Daily Telegraph An exceptionally readable and interesting relation of the poet's life that makes some fascinating observations about the work. Advance praise from Philip Pullman
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