Milton in the Long Restoration (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hoxby, Blair; Coiro, Ann Baynes

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Produktbeschreibung

Milton criticism often treats the poet as if he were the last of the Renaissance poets or a visionary prophet who remained misunderstood until he was read by the Romantics. At the same time, literary histories of the period often invoke a Long Eighteenth Century that reaches its climax with the French Revolution or the Reform Bill of 1832. What gets overlooked in such accounts is the rich story of Milton's relationship to his contemporaries and early eighteenth-century heirs. The essays in this collection demonstrate that some of Milton's earliest readers were more perceptive than Romantic and twentieth-century interpreters. The translations, editions, and commentaries produced by early eighteenth century men of letters emerge as the seedbed of modern criticism and the term 'neoclassical' is itself unmasked as an inadequate characterization of the literary criticism and poetry of the period-a period that could brilliantly define a Miltonic sublime, even as it supported and described all the varieties of parody and domestication found in the mock epic and the novel. These essays, which are written by a team of leading Miltonists and scholars of the Restoration and eighteenth century, cover a range of topics-from Milton's early editors and translators to his first theatrical producers; from Miltonic similes in Pope's Iliad to Miltonic echoes in Austen's Pride and Prejudice; from marriage, to slavery, to republicanism, to the heresy of Arianism. What they share in common is a conviction that the early eighteenth century understood Milton and that the Long Restoration cannot be understood without him.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191082405
• Artikelnr.: 46160982

Autorenporträt

Blair Hoxby is Professor of English at Stanford University. After graduating with an A. B. from Harvard University, he studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He then earned his Ph.D. from Yale University. Before coming to Stanford, he was an Associate Professor of English at Yale and an Associate Professor of History and Literature at Harvard. He is the author of Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton; What Was Tragedy? Theory and the Early Modern Canon; and numerous articles on Milton, literary and cultural responses to nascent capitalism, early modern theater, and theories of tragedy. Ann Baynes Coiro is Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of a number of essays on a wide variety of topics, including Herrick, Jonson, Amelia Lanyer, the social connections of manuscript and print circulation, Stuart court culture, Cavalier poetry and the English revolution, and Restoration theatricality. In particular, she has published many essays on Milton's poetry. She will be the President of the Milton Society of America, 2016-17. Her first book was titled Robert Herrick's Hesperides and the Epigram Book Tradition. She has co-edited the recent Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton (Cambridge).

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Figures
* Note on the Text and List of Abbreviations
* List of Contributors
* Introduction. Why Milton in the Long Restoration
* I. RECEPTION AND INTERPRETATION
* 1.: Denise Gigante: Milton's Spots: Addison on Paradise Lost
* 2.: David A. Harper: Critical Mass: Contextualizing Bentley's
Paradise Lost
* 3.: N. K. Sugimura: 'A Fine Paradisaical Notion': Materialism and
Readings of Paradise Lost in the 'Long Restoration'
* 4.: Blair Hoxby: 'In the Dun Air Sublime': Milton, the Richardsons,
and the Invention of Aesthetic Categories
* II. THE DRAMATIC AND THEATRICAL MILTON
* 5.: Ann Baynes Coiro: Milton's Essay of Dramatic Poesy: Samson
Agonistes,
* 6.: Catherine Gimelli Martin: John Dennis, John Locke, and the
Sublimation of Revolt: Samson Agonistes after the Glorious
Revolution,
* 7.: Blaine Greteman: 'To Secure Our Freedom': How A Mask Presented at
Ludlow-Castle Became Milton's Comus,
* 8.: Ruth Smith: Milton Modulated for Handel's Music,
* III. LINEAL DESCENTS AND CLANS
* 9.: Steven N. Zwicker: John Dryden Meets, Rhymes, and Says Farewell
to John Milton: A Restoration Drama in Four Scenes,
* 10.: Laura L. Knoppers: 'I Still Deny'd, Much Pleas'd to Hear You
Sue': Milton's Eve, Ovid, and the Restoration Coquette,
* 11.: Dustin D. Stewart: Angel Bodies to Whig Souls: Blank Verse after
Blenheim,
* 12.: Christopher R. Miller: Yet Once More: Milton's Lyric
Descendants,
* 13.: Sophie Gee: Milton's Pope,
* IV. CONDITIONS OF LIBERTY
* 14.: Gregory Chaplin: The Circling Hours: Revolution in Paradise
Regained,
* 15.: Martin Dzelzainis: 'In Power of Others, Never in My Own': The
Meaning of Slavery in Samson Agonistes,
* 16.: Nicholas von Maltzahn: Milton and the Restoration Literae,
* 17.: Stephen M. Fallon: Milton, Newton, and the Implications of
Arianism,
* 18.: Mary Nyquist: Friday as Fit Help,
* V. WIDER WORLDS
* 19.: Sharon Achinstein: Early Modern Marriage in a Secular Age:
Beyond the Sexual Contract,
* 20.: Nigel Smith: Haak's Milton,
* 21.: Jason Peacey: Miltonic Texts and European Politics, 1674-1682,
* 22.: Anne-Julia Zwierlein: Purging the Visual Nerve: Exploration,
'Revelation', and Cosmography in Milton Commentaries and Criticism of
the Long Restoration,
* 23.: Steven Pincus: Some Thoughts on Periodization: John Milton to
Adam Smith and Beyond,
* VI. EPIC, MOCK EPIC, AND THE NOVEL
* 24.: John Leonard: Milton, the Long Restoration, and Pope's Iliad,
* 25.: Anthony Welch: Paradise Lost and English Mock Heroic,
* 26.: Joanna Picciotto: Milton and the People,
* 27.: Michael McKeon: Paradise Lost in the Long Restoration,
1660-1742: The Parody of Form,
* 28.: Paul Stevens: Raphael's Condescension: Paradise Lost, Jane
Austen, and the Secular Displacement of Grace,
* VII. MILTON'S LIVES
* 29.: Jayne Lewis: 'His Ears Now Were Eyes to Him': The Lives of
Milton in the Long Restoration,
* Bibliography