Milton, Evil and Literary History

ISBN-13: 9781441193735 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 168 str.

Claire Colebrook

Opis

Using the work of John Milton and his conflict between good and evil, Claire Colebrook shows exactly how we read literary history according to quite specific images of growth, development, progression, flourishing and succession. Colebrook illustrates not only how goodness is aligned with images of a life of expansion, creation, production and fruition, while evil is associated with the inert, non-relational, static and stagnant, but how these associations have also underpinned a distinction between good and evil notions of capitalism. Informed by an expansive corpus of philosophical texts, including Kant, Aristotle, Deleuze and Derrida, Colebrook's study presents a new, surprising, theory of literary history and makes a significant contribution to Milton studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Life, Economy, Evil \ 1. Milton's History of Reason and Church Government \ 2. Capital Time, Production and Generation \ 3. Allegory, Analogy and the Form of the World \ 4. Gender and Contrariety \ 5. History, Becoming and Reason \ Conclusion: Excremental  Whiteness \ Bibliography \ Index