| Description |
xiii, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Milton's gendered subjects / Catherine Gimelli Martin -- PART I. MASCULINITY, DIVORCE, AND MISOGYNY IN MILTON'S PROSE -- Gender of civic virtue / Gina Hausknecht -- Aesthetics of divorce: "masculinism," idolatry, and poetic authority in Tetrachordon and Paradise Lost / James Grantham Turner -- Dalila, misogyny, and Milton's Christian liberty of divorce / Catherine Gimelli Martin -- PART II. THE GENDERED SUBJECTS OF MILTON'S MAJOR POEMS -- Profession of virginity in A maske presented at Ludlow Castle / William Shullenberger -- Genders of God and the redemption of the flesh in Paradise lost / Marshall Grossman -- Transported touch: the fruit of marriage in Paradise lost / John Rogers -- Experience of defeat: Milton and some female contemporaries / Elizabeth M. Sauer -- Samson and surrogacy / Amy Boesky -- "I was his nursling once": nation, lactation, and the Hebraic in Samson Agonistes / Rachel Trubowitz -- "Jewish Question" and "The woman question" in Samson Agonistes: gender, religion, and nation / Achsah Guibbory -- PART III. GENDERED SUBJECTIVITY IN MILTON'S LITERARY HISTORY -- George Elliot as a "Miltonist": marriage and Milton in Middlemarch / Dayton Haskin -- Saying it with flowers: Jane Giraud's ecofeminist Paradise Lost (1846) / Wendy Furman-Adams, Virginia James Tufte -- Woolf's allusion to Comus in The voyage out / Lisa Low. |
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Political and social views.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Relations with women.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Characters -- Women.
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Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Sex role in literature.
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Women in literature.
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| Added Author |
Martin, Catherine Gimelli.
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| ISBN |
0521841305 |
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9780521841306 |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 264677900 |
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YDXCP 2104061 |
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NZ1 8496414 |
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