The New Milton Criticism

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The New Milton Criticism
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Peter C. Herman
Edited by Elizabeth Sauer
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:266
Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 153
Category/GenreLiterary studies - c 1500 to c 1800
Literary studies - poetry and poets
ISBN/Barcode 9781107603950
ClassificationsDewey:821.4
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 12 April 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The New Milton Criticism seeks to emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previous Milton scholarship. Contributors to the volume move Milton's open-ended poetics to the centre of Milton studies by showing how analysing irresolvable questions - religious, philosophical and literary critical - transforms interpretation and enriches appreciation of his work. The New Milton Criticism encourages scholars to embrace uncertainties in his writings rather than attempt to explain them away. Twelve critics from a range of countries, approaches and methodologies explore these questions in these new readings of Paradise Lost and other works. Sure to become a focus of debate and controversy in the field, this volume is a truly original contribution to early modern studies.

Author Biography

Peter C. Herman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. Elizabeth Sauer is Professor of English at Brock University, Canada.

Reviews

'A collection of largely embracing essays, studded with bright little insights into particular passages, and the 'against-the-grain' feel of (almost) the entire book will surely have warmed the hearts of its contributors.' William Poole, Milton Quarterly