Milton and the ends of time

edited by Juliet Cummins

In Milton and the Ends of Time, originally published in 2003, a team of leading international scholars addresses Milton's treatment of millennial and apocalyptic ideas, topics of major importance in the religious and philosophical thought of his day. The subject has wide-ranging ramifications for the interpretation of Milton's poetry and prose, as his speculations on the ends of time played a vital part in shaping the Miltonic quest and vision. This collection thinks critically about Milton's eschatology by arguing that Milton expressed radical millenarian views after the Restoration and by demonstrating the pervasiveness of apocalyptic ideas in Milton's thought. It also provides a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives; approaches include Milton and the visual arts, Milton's politics and theology, Milton and science and comparative poetics. This volume will be of interest to literary, religious and political historians of the seventeenth century, as well as Milton specialists.

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[目次]

  • List of contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: 'Those thoughts that wander through eternity' Juliet Cummins
  • Part I. Millennium: 1. Milton and the Millennium Barbara K. Lewalski
  • 2. Mede, Milton and More: Christ's College Millenarians Sarah Hutton
  • 3. Milton and Millenarianism: from the Nativity Ode to Paradise Regained Stella P. Revard
  • 4. Astronomical signs in Paradise Lost: Milton, Ophiucus and the Millennial debate Malabika Sarkar
  • 5. The Millennial moment: Milton vs. 'Milton' William B. Hunter
  • 6. Confusion: the apocalypse, the millennium John T. Shawcross
  • Part II. Apocalypse: 7. John Martin's apocalyptic illustrations to Paradise Lost Beverley Sherry
  • 8. The enclosed garden and the apocalypse: immanent versus transcendent time in Milton and Marvell Catherine Gimelli Martin
  • 9. Matter and apocalyptic transformations in Paradise Lost Juliet Cummins
  • 10. 'New heavens, new earth': apocalypse and the loss of sacramentality in the Postlapsarian books of Paradise Lost Claude N. Stulting, Jr.
  • 11. The apocalypse in Paradise Regained Ken Simpson
  • 12. Inspiration and melancholy in Samson Agonistes Karen Edwards
  • Afterword: 'The Time is Come' David Loewenstein.

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書名 Milton and the ends of time
著作者等 Cummins Juliet
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 2003
ページ数 x, 254 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0521816653
NCID BA62154823
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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