Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband minimal berieben, sonst sehr gut und sauber / binding minimally rubbed, otherwise very good and clean. - Although the poet John Milton was a politically active citizen and polemicist during the English Revolution, little has been written on Milton�s concept of nationalism. The first book to examine major aspects of Milton s nationalism in its full complexity and diversity, Early Modern Nationalism and Milton�s England features fifteen essays by leading international scholars who illuminate the significance of the nation as a powerful imaginative construct in his writings. Informed by a range of critical methods, the essays examine the diverse - sometimes conflicting � and strained expressions of nationhood and national identity in Milton's writings, to address the literary, ethnic, and civic dimensions of his nationalism. These essays enrich our understanding of the imaginative achievements, religious polemics, and political tensions of Milton�s poetry and prose, as well as of the impact of his writings in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Early Modem Nationalism and Milton�s England also illuminates the formation of early-modern nationalism, as well as the complexities of seventeenth-century English politics and religion. / Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Milton's Nationalism: Challenges and Questions DAVID LOEWENSTEIN and PAUL STEVENS PART ONE : THE MAJESTY OF A FREE PEOPLE 1 Milton's Nationalism and the English Revolution: Strains and Contradictions DAVID LOEWENSTEIN 2 Milton and the Struggle for the Representation of the Nation: Reading Paradise Lost through Eikonoklastes ANDREW HADFIELD 3 Victory's Crest: Milton, the English Nation, and Cromwell WARREN CHERNAIK PART TWO : NATIONHOOD, THE ENGLISH CHURCH, AND NON-CONFORMITY 4 Israel and English Protestant Nationalism: 'Fast Sermons' during the English Revolution ACHSAH GUIBBORY 5 Look Homeward Angel: Guardian Angels and Nationhood in Seventeenth-Century England JOAD RAYMOND 6 The Invisible Nation: Church, State, and Schism in Milton's England ANDREW ESCOBEDO PART THR EE: ETHNICITY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 7 Milton and the Limitations of Englishness THOMAS N. CORNS 8 The Anglo-Scoto-Dutch Triangle: Milton and Marvell to 1660 JOHN KERRIGAN 9 Disappointed Nationalism: Milton in the Context of Seventeenth-Century Debates about the Nation-State VICTORIA KAHN 10 How Milton's Nationalism Works: Globalization and the Possibilities of Positive Nationalism PAUL STEVENS PART FOUR: MILTON'S NATIONALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS: GENDER, LUXURY, SLAVERY 11 That Fatal Boadicea: Depicting Women in Milton's History of Britain, 1670 WILLY MALEY 12 Consuming Nations: Milton and Luxury LAURA LUNGER KNOPPERS 13 Slavery, Resistance, and Nation in Milton and Locke MARY NYQUIST PART FIVE: THE NATIONALIZATION OF MILTON 14 Milton: Nation and Reception NICHOLAS VON MALTZAHN List of Contributors Index. ISBN 9780802089359