Christine Rees

Johnson's Milton

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Produktbeschreibung

A detailed analysis of Johnson's complicated and controversial attitude to Milton in the context of eighteenth-century literary criticism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 455g
• ISBN-13: 9781107422513
• ISBN-10: 1107422515
• Artikelnr.: 41123912

Autorenporträt

Christine Rees is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King's College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Johnson and Milton
Part I. Johnson the Reader/Writer: Appropriating Milton's Texts: 1. Summoning Milton's ghost: Miltonic allusion in the periodical essays
2. 'No Miltonian fire'? Miltonic allusion in Johnson's poetry
3. Rasselas: a rewriting of Paradise Lost?
4. 'Licence they mean when they cry liberty': the 1770s tracts
Part II. Johnson the Critic: Assessing Milton's Achievement: 5. 'Phantoms which cannot be wounded': the Lauder affair
6. Cutting a colossus: Johnson's criticism of Paradise Lost
7. Cherry-stones: Johnson on Milton's shorter poems
Part III. Johnson the Biographer: Constructing Milton's Character: 8. 'An acrimonious and surly republican': Milton as political subject
9. 'Domestick privacies': Milton as private subject
10. Conclusion: 'what other author ever soared so high?'
Bibliography
Index.