Milton and the Rabbis : : Hebraism, Hellenism, and Christianity / / Jeffrey Shoulson.
Taking as its starting point the long-standing characterization of Milton as a "Hebraic" writer, Milton and the Rabbis probes the limits of the relationship between the seventeenth-century English poet and polemicist and his Jewish antecedents. Shoulson's analysis moves back and forth...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2001] ©2001 |
Year of Publication: | 2001 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Texts
- Introduction: Hebraism and Literary History
- 1. Diaspora and Restoration
- 2. "Taking Sanctuary Among the Jews": Milton and the Form of Jewish Precedent
- 3. The Poetics of Accommodation: Theodicy and the Language of Kingship
- 4. Imagining Desire: Divine and Human Creativity
- 5. "So Shall the World Go On": Martyrdom, Interpretation, and History
- Epilogue: Toward Interpreting the Hebraism of Samson Agonistes
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index