@article{911651,
      author = {Sauer, Elizabeth,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/911651},
      title = {Milton, toleration, and nationhood /},
      abstract = {"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"--},
      recid = {911651},
      pages = {1 online resource (236 pages)},
}