Milton and the Imperial Vision

出版者:Duquesne University Press

作者:Balachandra Rajan

页数:376

出版时间:1999-1-1

价格:GBP 48.50

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780820703039

具体描述

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.

目录信息

Introduction / Balachandra Rajan, Elizabeth Sauer 1
1. Dominion as Domesticity: Milton's Imperial God and the Experience of History / Janel Mueller 25
2. The "Lordly eye": Milton and the Strategic Geography of Empire / Bruce McLeod 48
3. Imperial Dialectic: Milton and Conquered Peoples / Sharon Achinstein 67
4. Milton and the New World: Custom, Relativism, and the Discipline of Shame / Paul Stevens 90
5. Ecology and Empire / Diane Kelsey McColley 112
6. Cromwell, Milton, and the Western Design / Robert Thomas Fallon 133
7. Milton and "the complication of interests" in Early Modern Ireland / Willy Maley 155
8. Colonials Write the Nation: Spenser, Milton, and England on the Margins / Linda Gregerson 169
9. "The destin'd Walls / Of Cambalu": Milton, China, and the Ambiguities of the East / Robert Markley 191
10. Religious Toleration and Imperial Intolerance / Elizabeth Sauer 214
11. Acts of Kind Service: Milton and the Patriot Literature of Empire / Nicholas von Maltzahn 233
12. "Greek & Latin Slaves of the Sword": Rejecting the Imperial Nation in Blake's Milton / Julia M. Wright 255
13. Milton and Education / Gauri Viswanathan 273
14. The Imperial Temptation / Balachandra Rajan 294
15. Afterword: An Ironic Act of Courage / Homi K. Bhabha 315
Notes 323
Notes on the Contributors 366
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