Demonstrating how John Milton's theory of education emerged from his own practices as a reader and teacher, this book analyses the relationship between Milton's own material habits as a reader and his theory of the power of books.
Demonstrating how John Milton's theory of education emerged from his own practices as a reader and teacher, this book analyses the relationship betwee...
Bringing together eight original essays from leading and emerging Miltonists, this volume explores a second wave of critical thought about Milton's monist materialism, the view that all existence arises from a single substance or reality. Contributors examine sensory matters of fragrance and sound, the literary politics of walking and of sexual reproduction, the ontology of embodiment as human beings and angels, and the appropriation of Milton's materialism by both early Mormons in the nineteenth century and fringe figures such as gun enthusiasts in the twentieth. In so doing, they...
Bringing together eight original essays from leading and emerging Miltonists, this volume explores a second wave of critical thought about Milton's mo...