Milton, Toleration, and Nationhood (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107615199)

John Milton lived at a time when English nationalism became entangled with principles and policies of cultural, religious, and ethnic tolerance. Combining political theory with close readings of key texts, this study examines how Milton's polemical and imaginative literature intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood. Through detailed case studies of Milton's works, Elizabeth Sauer charts the fluctuating narrative of Milton's literary engagements in relation to social, political, and philosophical themes such as ecclesiology, exclusionism, Irish alterity, natural law, disestablishment, geography, and intermarriage. In so doing, Sauer shows the extent to which nationhood and toleration can be subjected to literary and historicist inquiry. Her study makes a salient contribution to Milton studies and to scholarship on Early Modern literature and the development of the early nation-state.

Author: Elizabeth Sauer
ISBN-10: 1107615194
ISBN-13: 9781107615199
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/10/2016
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d