Milton Unbound: Controversy and Reinterpretation
Book Details
Author(s)John P. Rumrich
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN / ASIN0521551730
ISBN-139780521551731
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Sales Rank5,754,774
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
John Milton holds a crucial strategic position on the intellectual and ideological map of literary studies. In this provocative and liberating study, John P. Rumrich contends that contemporary critics have contributed to the invention of a monolithic or institutional Milton: censorious preacher, aggressive misogynist, and champion of the emerging bourgeoisie. Rumrich exposes the historical inaccuracies and logical inconsistencies that sustain this orthodoxy, and argues instead for a more complex Milton who was able to accommodate uncertainty and doubt.
