Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader

ISBN-13: 9780199242580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 320 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

Review from previous edition 'the book will probably be consulted more often than read as a whole ... any reader tolerant of the Blakean angle of vision will find it fruitfully employed in this study' E.D. Hill, Mount Holyoke College, Choice, June '93

O autorze

Lucy Newlyn is Lecturer in English, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and author of Reading, Writing, and Romanticism and Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the Language of Allusion.