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First published in 1987. Passionately praised and equally passionately criticised by contemporary and later writers, the figure of Milton inherited by the twentieth century is by no means unified, despite the appearance of monumental unity his work sometimes acquires in the classroom and in academic criticism.
This collection of essays gathers together disparate and often conflicting representations of Milton as author and cultural figure. Critics familiar with the traditions of Milton scholarship and with debates in literary theory reconstruct Milton from evidence provided by his own prose and poetry, by his contemporaries (including some little-known women writers), by Romantics such as Blake and Wordsworth, and, finally, by a tradition of Afro-American writing that reflects Milton's influence in ways previously unexamined by critics. The process of reconstruction can also be seen as a process of "re-membering." The volume draws inspiration from, but also interrogates, the figure used in Areopagita to describe the quest for truth. Likening Truth to the dismembered body of Osiris, Milton urges Truth's friends to seek up and down, gathering "limb by limb" the body scattered through time and space.
Re-membering Milton includes work by established critics from both sides of the Atlantic. Together these contributors place Milton and different Milton traditions firmly within the arenas of modem critical debate. As a result, the collection will be of interest to a wide range of readers: scholars concerned with Milton and Renaissance literature and history; advanced undergraduates and graduate students; researchers in women's studies; and all readers generally concerned with trends in literary and cultural theory.
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Abdiel
as foil for Satan 330
as model for poet 219
Abercrombie, Nicholas 70n
Abraham
in Blake’s Milton 269
and Samson 156
Abraham, Nicholas 232n
Adam 143, 181, 183–4, 187, 190–4, 220, 224, 228, 268
in Afro-American literature 292–3
creation of 99–127n
and love 303–15
and Satan 331–9
and Wisdom 201–7
Adorno, Theodor 149
Aers, David 126n–7n
Ahl, Frederick M. 145n
Aitzema, Leo 96n
Alderman, Hyman 147n
allegory 55, 226, 347
of class, in Comus 65–7
of emergence of sexuality 53
historical, in “Nativity Ode” 44–5
political, in PL 209n
religious 46–7, 51–2, 70n
in SA 148, 167
in Spenser 223
Allen, Don Cameron 232n
Althusser, Louis 65–6, 70n, 152
Ambrose, St 206
Anglican Church 45, 47, 51–2
Apuleius 38
Arianism 207, 217, 348
Ariosto, Lodovico 218
Aristotle 231n, 250
Arminianism 71n, 150, 155–6, 164
...Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- I The author function
- II Texts in their contemporary contexts
- III The written word
- IV Re-memberings
- Index