Milton and the Imperial Vision

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Balachandra Rajan, Elizabeth Sauer
Duquesne University Press, 1999 - Literary Criticism - 376 pages
This exceptionally rich collection of 16 essays by major literary scholars and cultural historians opens new areas of inquiry in Milton studies. While focusing on forms and variations of imperialism and colonialism in the seventeenth century, chiefly as a context in which to analyse Milton's poetry and prose, these essays extend their attention to the present-day concern with postcolonialism and postcolonialist discourse. More than anything, these essays compare and contrast early modern and postmodern perspectives on various issues: imperial visions of history, imperial intolerance, the geography of empire, the role of Nature in the imperial vision, the interplay of religion and politics in imperialism, Augustan Nationalism, the multiple vision for a British Empire, the imperial canon in the colonial classroom, and the like.

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Contents

Introduction
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VI
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Janel Mueller
25
Copyright

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Adam and Eve ancient Britons angels anti-imperial Areopagitica Armitage Articles of Peace Balachandra Rajan barbarism beasts Blake British Cambridge China Christian Christopher Hill civil classical colonial Comus conquest context corruption Cromwell Cromwell's cultural custom Dalila David discourse divine domination dominion Dutch early modern Earth empire England English epic essay expansion fleet geography God's Heav'n Hebrew History of Britain human imagination imperium Indies Ireland Irish Israel Jews John Milton king kingdom language liberty London Martin Evans Milton's Imperial Milton's writings moral narrative nation native nature offer Oliver Cromwell Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Parthia Patriot Philistine poem poet poetry political Prose Protestant Purchas Rajan religious republican Rolfe Roman Rome rule Samson Agonistes Satan Scotland Scots seventeenth century shame slavery Son's Spain Spanish Spenser struggle thee thir thou tion trade translatio imperii tyranny University Press vision Western Design Willy Maley

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About the author (1999)

Balachandra Rajan is professor emeritus of English at the University of Western Ontario. Elizabeth Sauer is Associate Professor of English at Brock University, Canada.

Bibliographic information

TitleMilton and the Imperial Vision
Medieval and Renaissance literary studies
EditorsBalachandra Rajan, Elizabeth Sauer
PublisherDuquesne University Press, 1999
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized12 Mar 2008
ISBN0820703036, 9780820703039
Length376 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
Literary Criticism / Poetry
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  
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