Milton, toleration, and nationhood / / Elizabeth Sauer, Brock University.

"John Milton lived at a time when English nationalism became entangled with principles and policies of cultural, religious, and ethnic tolerance. Combining political theory with close readings of key texts, this study examines how Milton's polemical and imaginative prose intersects with re...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge ;, New York : : Cambridge University Press,, 2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (236 pages)
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  • Machine generated contents note: Note on editions; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'Temple-worke': Milton's Literary ecclesiology; 2. Reduction: civilizing conquests in Ireland; 3. Natural law: Milton's post-revolutionary Defences of England; 4. Disestablishment: divorce of church and state; 5. Geography: spatial poetics; 6. Exogamy: 'entercourse' with philistines; Epilogue.