Why Milton Matters: A New Preface to His Writings
Wittreich demonstrates why Milton may prove to be the poet for the new millennium, in a book of interest to scholars and general readers. It engages the canonical Milton, as well as the Milton of popular culture, and uses the tools of theory- especially affective stylistics and reception history, to read Milton in his historical moment and our own.
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Why Milton Matters: A New Preface to His Writings
Wittreich demonstrates why Milton may prove to be the poet for the new millennium, in a book of interest to scholars and general readers. It engages the canonical Milton, as well as the Milton of popular culture, and uses the tools of theory- especially affective stylistics and reception history, to read Milton in his historical moment and our own.
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Why Milton Matters: A New Preface to His Writings

Why Milton Matters: A New Preface to His Writings

by J. Wittreich
Why Milton Matters: A New Preface to His Writings

Why Milton Matters: A New Preface to His Writings

by J. Wittreich

Hardcover(2006)

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Wittreich demonstrates why Milton may prove to be the poet for the new millennium, in a book of interest to scholars and general readers. It engages the canonical Milton, as well as the Milton of popular culture, and uses the tools of theory- especially affective stylistics and reception history, to read Milton in his historical moment and our own.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781403972293
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 03/27/2008
Edition description: 2006
Pages: 253
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

JOSEPH WITTREICH is Distinguished Professor of English, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, USA.

Table of Contents

Illustrations Preface Citations "Reading" Milton: The Death (and Survival) of the Author Horizons of Expectations: Represssions, Receptions, and the Politics of Milton's Last Poems Critique and Questioning: The Formation of a New Milton Criticism
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