400 after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. 'The Oxford Handbook of Milton' is a comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studies in the early 21st century, bringing together an international team of more than 30 leading scholars.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Notes on Contributors
- Note on the Text and List of Abbreviations
- Miltons' Life: Some Significant Dates
- Part I: Lives
- 1: Edward Jones: 'Ere Half My Days': Milton's Life, 1608-1640
- 2: Nicholas von Maltzahn: John Milton: The Later Life, 1641-1675
- Part II: Shorter Poems
- 3: Estelle Haan: 'The Adorning of My Native Tongue': Milton's Latin Poetry and Linguistic Metamorphosis
- 4: Gordon Teskey: Milton's Early English Poems: The Nativity Ode, 'L'Allegro', 'Il Penseroso'
- 5: Ann Baynes Coiro: 'A thousand fantasies': The Lady and the Maske
- 6: Nicholas McDowell: 'Lycidas' and the Influence of Anxiety
- 7: John Leonard: The Troubled, Quiet Endings of Milton's English Sonnets
- Part III: Civil War Prose, 1641-45
- 8: Nigel Smith: The Anti-Episcopal Tracts: Republicanism Puritanism and the Truth in Poetry
- 9: Sharon Achinstein: 'A Law in this matter to himself': Contextualising Milton's Divorce Tracts
- 10: Diane Purkiss: Whose Liberty? The Rhetoric of Milton's Divorce Tracts
- 11: Ann Hughes: Milton Areopagitica, and the Parliamentary Cause
- 12: Blair Hoxby: Areopagitica and Liberty
- Part IV: Regicide, Republican, and Restoration Prose
- 13: Stephen M. Fallon: 'The Strangest Piece of Reason': Milton's Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
- 14: Nicholas McDowell: Milton's Regicide Tracts and the Uses of Shakespeare
- 15: Joad Raymond: John Milton, European: the Rhetoric of Milton's Defences
- 16: Estelle Haan: Defensio Prima and the Latin Poets
- 17: N. H. Keeble: 'Nothing nobler then a free Commonwealth': Milton's Later Vernacular Republican Tracts
- 18: Elizabeth Sauer: Disestablishment, Toleration, the New Testament Nation: Milton's Late Religious Tracts
- 19: Paul Stevens: Milton and National Identity
- Part V: Writings on Education, History, Theology
- 20: William Poole: The Genres of Milton's Commonplace Book
- 21: Timothy Raylor: Milton, the Hartlib Circle, and the Education of the Aristocracy
- 22: Martin Dzelzainis: Conquest and Slavery in Milton's History of Britain
- 23: Gordon Campbell and Thomas N. Corns: De Doctrina Christiana: An England That Might Have Been
- Part VI: Paradise Lost
- 24: Charles Martindale: Writing Epic: Paradise Lost
- 25: John Creaser: 'A mind of most exceptional energy': Verse Rhythm in Paradise Lost
- 26: Stephen B. Dobranski: Editing Milton: the Case against Modernization
- 27: Karen L. Edwards: The 'World' of Paradise Lost
- 28: Nigel Smith: Paradise Lost and Heresy
- 29: Stuart Curran: God
- 30: Susan Wiseman: Eve, Paradise Lost, and Female Interpretation
- 31: Martin Dzelzainis: The Politics of Paradise Lost
- Part VII: 1671 Poems: Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes
- 32: Laura Lunger Knoppers: 'Englands Case': Context of the 1671 Poems
- 33: John Rogers: Paradise Regained and the Memory of Paradise Lost
- 34: R. W. Serjeantson: Samson Agonistes and 'Single Rebellion'
- 35: Regina M. Schwartz: Samson Agonistes: the Force of Justice and the Violence of Idolatry
- 36: Elizabeth D. Harvey: Samson Agonistes and Milton's Sensible Ethics
- Part VII: Aspects of Influence
- 37: Anne-Julia Zwierlein: Milton Epic and Bucolic: Empire and Readings of Paradise Lost, 1667-1837
- 38: Joseph Wittreich: Miltonic Romanticism