Brendan Prawdzik

Gebundenes Buch

Theatrical Milton

Politics and Poetics of the Staged Body

Beschreibung

'Ranging across Milton's career in prose and verse, Prawdzik establishes the reasons why theatricality mattered, not only to the poet's understanding of authority, selfhood and the millennial triumph of a nation, but also to his understanding of human vulnerability and sinfulness.' Reid Barbour, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Explains the presence of theatre in John Milton and its centrality to his politics and poetry Theatrical Milton explores the longstanding problem of Milton's relationship to theatre. In the process, it provides compelling solutions to the cruces of major Miltonic texts - the Maske, Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes - while offering uniquely extensive treatments of The Vacation Exercise and Animadversions, bringing these into an untold narrative of Milton's career. The book attends to Milton's interest in the dramatic medium yet finds its most significant answers in the role of the body in rhetorical theory and religious politics. It extends its insights to characterise the Miltonic corpus as a systemic body that evolves through bounded indeterminacies. Brendan Prawdzik is Lecturer in the English Department at Pennsylvania State University. Cover image: Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-2101-0 Barcode

Autor

Brendan Prawdzik is Asisstant Teaching Professor in English at Pennsylvania State University. He received his BA from Rutgers University in 2001 and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. He has taught at UC Berkeley and the University of the Pacific and joined the faculty of Penn State in 2015. He has published on John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and early modern culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781474421010
• ISBN-10: 1474421016
• Artikelnr.: 47376861