The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost: Reading against the Grain (The Nineteenth Century Series) ISBN-13: 9780367887971
The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost: Reading against the Grain (The Nineteenth Century Series) ISBN-13: 9780367887971 | 9780367887971, Book, Jonathon, Routledge, Shears | ISBN-10: 0367887975
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ISBN-13: 9780367887971
Binding: Paperback
Author: Shears, Jonathon
Details: The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Beginning with a discussion of the role that seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers like Dryden, Johnson and Burke played in formulating the political and spiritual mythology that grew up around Milton, Shears devotes a chapter to each of the major Romantic poets, contextualizing their misreadings of Milton within a range of historical, aesthetic, and theoretical contexts and discourses. By tackling the vexed issue of whether Paradise Lost by its nature makes available and encourages alternate readings or whether misreadings are imposed on the poem from without, Shears argues that the Romantic inclination towards fragmentation and a polysemous aesthetic leads to disrupted readings of Paradise Lost that obscure the theme, or warp the grain, of the poem. Shears concludes by examining the ways in which the legacy of Romantic misreading continues to shape critical responses to Miltons epic.
Release Date: 12-12-2019
Package Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
Languages: English
Edition: 1
Number Of Pages: 232
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