The Cambridge Introduction to Milton
The Cambridge Introduction to Milton
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John Milton is one of the most important and influential writers in English literary history. The goal of this book is to make Milton's works more accessible and enjoyable by providing a comprehensive overview of the author's life, times and writings. It describes essential details from Milton's biography, explains some of the cultural and historical contexts in which he wrote, offers fresh analyses of his major pamphlets and poems – including Lycidas, Areopagitica and Paradise Lost – and describes in depth traditional and recent responses to his reputation and writings. Separate sections focus on important concepts or key passages from his major works to illustrate how readers can interpret – and get excited about – Milton's writings. This detailed and engaging introduction to Milton will help readers not only better understand the author's life and works but also better appreciate why Milton matters.
- Includes separate, detailed discussions of Milton's literary contemporaries, predecessors, theology, and political and cultural context
- Contains a selective, annotated list of further reading
- Provides separate shaded boxes with detailed summaries and close readings that illustrate how to read Milton's works
Reviews & endorsements
"...This volume far surpasses similar studies in breadth and depth despite its compact size. Part of the "Cambridge Introductions to Literature" series, this volume should become a necessity for teachers and students of Milton." --Choice
"Dobranski’s is an introduction with a rare combination of concise historical and contextual comprehensiveness and formal literary acumen. It also offers a suggestive vision of the networked nature of authorship and readership, in early modernity and today, not merely a dubiously neutral survey of the best that has been said and thought. As such, it achieves more than what it promises: in addition to offering a thorough introduction to Milton’s poetry and contexts, it enables, if not prompts, the very sort of readerly self-examination that we hope a university education will foster." --Milton Quarterly
Product details
March 2012Paperback
9780521726450
264 pages
227 × 151 × 12 mm
0.42kg
5 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chronology
- 1. Life
- 2. Contexts
- 3. Prose
- 4. Poetry
- 5. Afterlife
- Further reading
- Index.
