Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism

ISBN-13: 9781032232409 / Twarda / 2023 / 240 str.

David A. Harper

Opis

It identifies the early reception of Paradise Lost as a site of contest over the place of literature in political and religious controversy and explains how it prompted its earliest readers and critics to innovate new critical strategies

Recenzje

"David Harper’s Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Scholarship is an original piece of work based on rigorous archival research, on history of the book methodology, and on close reading. It is a book that reshapes our understanding of the history of English literary criticism and scholarship by illuminating how Paradise Lost was interpreted and annotated in the Restoration and its aftermath. This book makes a major contribution to scholarly work on the poem’s reception history, while deepening our understanding of the discipline of English literary scholarship and criticism. Scholars and students of Milton will greatly benefit from reading Harper’s book, as will anyone interested in the making of English literary scholarship."

David Loewenstein, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Penn State-University Park, USA

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Frequently Cited Works

 

Introduction: Birth Narratives

Chapter 1

Milton’s Profaned Pen: Paradise Lost and the Political Anxiety of the Restoration

Chapter 2

“Sad Conclusions:” Paradise Lost, John Dryden, and Political Genre

Chapter 3

“So Bold in the Design:” John Dennis and the Sublime Paradise Lost

Chapter 4

“The Merit of Being the First:” Jacob Tonson’s 1695 Paradise Lost and Hume’s Annotations

Chapter 5

The Great Explainer: Addison’s Return to Paradise Lost

Chapter 6

“Such Scorn of Enemies:” Richard Bentley’s Paradise Lost

Bibliography

Index

 

O autorze

David A. Harper is the former Professor and Head of the Department of English and Philosophy at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. He is now teaching in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK.