| Milton and Modernity: Politics, Masculinity and Paradise Lost 2001 Edition Contributor(s): Jordan, M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349410918 ISBN-13: 9781349410910 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical |
| Dewey: 821.4 |
| Series: Politics, Masculinity and Paradise Lost |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5" W x 8" (0.53 lbs) 228 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book presents a theoretical and historicized reading of the production of the 'autonomous' subject in Milton's prose and in Paradise Lost. It rejects the current orthodoxy that liberal humanism is just a form of domination, and reads Milton's texts as revolutionary. Although Milton participates in the formation of discourses of sexuality, labour and the nature of reason which come to be normative, neither Milton's texts nor modernity more generally can be understood without also accepting the dynamism inherent in the belief in individual freedom. |