Milton and the Drama of History: Historical Vision, Iconoclasm, and the Literary Imagination

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Cambridge University Press, 27 jul 1990 - 197 pagina's
This first book-length study explores the relationship between Milton's vision of history and his literary imagination in the revolutionary prose and great poems. It focuses on Milton as a controversial writer actively engaged in shaping, representing, and participating in the drama of history of his age. Highlighting the apocalyptic and iconoclastic components of Milton's historical vision, the book examines the more turbulent dimensions of his polemic and poetic works. Loewenstein stresses the importance of Milton's less canonical texts (such as Eikonoklastes and the History of Britain) and shows how they illuminate the sense of history dramatized in Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes. Analyzing the literary expressions of Milton's radicalism, this study reveals a complex interaction among historical consciousness and figurative expression, political vision and textual effects.

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The Drama of History in the Early Revolutionary Prose
8
Apocalyptic Wrath Apocalyptic History
20
Impassioned Prose and Historical Vision
28
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35
Iconoclasm as History
51
The Historical Imagination
74
Paradise Lost and the Configurations of History
92
Samson Agonistes and the Drama of History
126
Notes
152
Index
189
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