The New Milton Criticism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107019225)

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 center of Milton studies by showing how analyzing 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: Peter C. Herman
ISBN-10: 1107019222
ISBN-13: 9781107019225
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/12/2012
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2012