Milton's Italy: Anglo-Italian Literature, Travel, and Connections in Seventeenth-Century England

ISBN-13: 9780367346768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 318 str.

Catherine Martin

Opis

This book joins a trend toward transnational literary studies and revives a tradition of Anglo-Italian scholarship centering on John Milton. Correcting misperceptions diminishing the international dimensions of his life and work, it surveys Milton’s Italianate studies, travels, poetics, politics, and religious convictions.

Spis treści

Introduction: Italian Self-Fashioning 1. The Canonical Milton and the Myth of Italy: Problems of Fact and Interpretation 2. Beyond the Alps: Milton’s Anglo-Italian Journey and its Contexts 3. Qualifying Milton’s Anti-Catholicism: the Proto-Protestant Reformers, Trent, and Beyond 4. Amazing Grace: Milton’s Mediation of Reformed and Roman Catholic Doctrine 5. The Republic of Letters and Furores of Inspiration: Neoplatonism in Milton’s Early Latin and English Verse 6. Disarming Grace: The Legacy of Beatrice and Laura 7. The Italian Context of Milton’s Neo-Roman Politics 8. Milton’s Italianate Epic: From Dante to Heroic Romance in "Paradise Lost" 9. The Tragic Music of Samson Agonistes in the Age of Monteverdi

O autorze

Catherine Gimelli Martin is Professor of English at the University of Memphis, USA.