Milton's Late Poems
Hardcover/Literary Criticism 280 pages English Aug 25, 2022
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Upending conventional scholarship on Milton and modernity, Lee Morrissey recasts Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes as narrating three alternative responses to a world in upheaval: adjustment, avoidance and antagonism. Through incisive engagement with narrative, form, and genre, Morrissey shows how each work, considered specifically as a fiction, grapples with the vicissitudes of a modern world characterised more by paradoxes, ambiguities, subversions and shifting temporalities than by any rigid historical periodization. The interpretations made possible by this book are as invaluable as they are counterintuitive, opening new definitions and stimulating avenues of research for Milton students and specialists, as well as for those working in the broader field of early modern studies. Morrissey invites us to rethink where Milton stands in relation to the greatest products of modernity, and in particular to that most modern of genres, the novel.
- Author:
- Lee Morrissey
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:
- Aug 25, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 280 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover/Literary Criticism
- ISBN-10:
- 1009197088
- ISBN-13:
- 9781009197083