Arenas of Conflict: Milton and the Unfettered Mind

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Kristin Pruitt McColgan, Charles W. Durham
Susquehanna University Press, 1997 - 290 oldal
The nineteen essays in this collection explore such varied fields of argument as John Milton's authorship of the Christian Doctrine, his adaptations of source material, his engagement in political controversies, his attitudes toward gender in Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes, and his reflection of seventeenth-century obstetrics and anticipation of modern chaos theory in Paradise Lost. In their sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory, and consistently interrogative views of Milton and his work, these essays offer an "arena of conflict" for future studies.

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Acknowledgments
9
Miltons Transgressive Maneuvers
21
Ramblings in Elucidation of the Authorship of the Christian
41
Milton and Womans Rights
51
Miltons History of Britain and the One Just
65
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71
A Fraternal Harmony
77
Lady Alice
93
The Wages of Sin and the Laws
161
Raphaels Roles in the Book of Tobit
183
The Education of Miltons Good Angels
193
SeventeenthCentury Obstetrics
212
Milton and the Winds of Folly
227
Paradisal Appetite and Cusan Food in Paradise Lost
239
Dalila Eve and the Concept of Woman in Miltons Radical
251
Dalila Misogyny and the De Casibus Tradition
261

Paradise Lost and the Paradoxes of Political
107
The Politics of Love in Paradise Lost
120
The Dynamics of Punishment
129
Chaos Theory
140
Filling in the Spaces in the Biblical Text
271
Contributors
282
Copyright

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97. oldal - And serious doctrine of virginity; And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know More happiness than this thy present lot. Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, 790 That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
55. oldal - Unargued I obey : so God ordains; God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.
122. oldal - It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say of knowing good by evil.
54. oldal - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him...
261. oldal - But God left free the will, for what obeys Reason is free, and reason he made right...
87. oldal - Heaven is saintly chastity, that, when a soul is found sincerely so, a thousand. liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear; till oft converse with heavenly habitants begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, the unpolluted temple of the mind, and turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, till all be made immortal.
80. oldal - Peace, brother: be not over-exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils; For, grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?
111. oldal - Whereto thus Adam fatherly displeased. "O execrable son so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given; He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.

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