Milton, toleration, and nationhood / Elizabeth Sauer, Brock University.
2014
PR3592.P64 S28 2014
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Title
Milton, toleration, and nationhood / Elizabeth Sauer, Brock University.
Author
Sauer, Elizabeth, 1964-
ISBN
9781107041943
9781107615199
9781107468924 (electronic book)
9781107615199
9781107468924 (electronic book)
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (236 pages)
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PR3592.P64 S28 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
821/.4
Summary
"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 prose 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Machine generated contents note: Note on editions; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'Temple-worke': Milton's Literary ecclesiology; 2. Reduction: civilizing conquests in Ireland; 3. Natural law: Milton's post-revolutionary Defences of England; 4. Disestablishment: divorce of church and state; 5. Geography: spatial poetics; 6. Exogamy: 'entercourse' with philistines; Epilogue.