Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader

ISBN-13: 9780198112778 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 312 str.

Lucy Newlyn

Opis

Was Milton on the side of the angels or the devils? Was he republican or anti-republican, feminist or misogynist? Did he value innocence or experience? This book shows how the Romantic reader responded, in complex and often paradoxical ways, to multiple ambiguities inherent in the very language of Paradise Lost. It examines ambivalent allusions to Satan and God, in responses to the French Revolution (Coleridge and Wordsworth), in studies of the origin of evil (Godwin, Blake, the Shelleys), in accounts of the creative imagination, and it looks at how Eve pervades representations of female sexuality (Byron and Keats). The book culminates in a chapter on Blake's Milton and also considers such prose writers as De Quincey, Lamb, Wollstonecraft, and Hazlitt.

Recenzje

Rather than confine herself to an author to chapter analysis Dr Newlyn instead chooses a thematic approach to assess the influence of Paradise Lost on a wide range of Romantic texts. This makes for an ongoing comparative analysis.