Milton (Routledge Revivals): A Study in Ideology and Form

ISBN-13: 9781138800915 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 254 str.

Christopher Kendrick;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

First published in 1986, this title critiques the canonical view of Milton as an isolated great man, and reassesses the impact of the Puritan Revolution on two of his major works: the 'Areopagitica' and 'Paradise Lost'. The study focuses on the emergence of a discreet ethical framework of thought within the dominant theological code of these two works, arguing that this framework - integral to Protestantism - is also crucial to the construction of subjectivity under capitalism.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements;  1. Introduction: reformation and ideological transition;  Part I: Revolution in a pamphlet  2. Areopagitica: rhetoric, ethics, and the dislocation of the subject;  Part II: The subject and primary reification  3. Possessive individualism, genre, and ethics;  Part III: The epic of emergent capitalism: a generic construction of Paradise Lost  4. God: epic, hexameron, and predestinary theology  5.Satan, epic, and allegorical tragedy: predestinary ethos as desire  6. Garden and fall: predestination as metaphysical lack;  Conclusion;  Notes;  Index