All in All: Unity, Diversity, and the Miltonic PerspectiveCharles W. Durham, Kristin A. Pruitt Susquehanna University Press, 1999 - 268 pages The sixteen essays in this collection reflect the individuality and diversity of varied ideas and approaches to Milton scholarship. They demonstrate the continued scholarly commitment to a search for truths in and about Milton's works, a process that began in the seventeenth century and promises to continue unabated into the next millennium. |
Contents
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Obedience and Disobedience in Paradise Lost | 39 |
The Threat of Bliss | 48 |
Eve as the Hero of Paradise Lost | 67 |
Miltons Eve as Closed Corpus Open Book and Apocryphal Text | 83 |
Agrippa Lanyer and Milton | 100 |
The Satanic Predicament in Paradise Lost | 112 |
Tassos Narrative Theory and Miltons Demonization of a Genre | 128 |
Hymns and AntiHymns to Light in Paradise Lost | 174 |
Miltons Use of Virgil in Paradise Lost Books 11 and 12 | 189 |
Miltons Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester and the Representation of Maternal Mortality in the SeventeenthCentury Epitaph | 200 |
The Argument of Comus Revisited | 224 |
Chaos Theory and Areopagitica | 232 |
The Dalila Episode | 245 |
Contributors | 259 |
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