Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England / / Paul Stevens, David Loewenstein.

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 Nation...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments / Loewenstein, David / Stevens, Paul
  • Introduction: Milton's Nationalism: Challenges and Questions / Loewenstein, David / Stevens, Paul
  • PART ONE. The Majesty of a Free People
  • 1. Milton's Nationalism and the English Revolution: Strains and Contradictions / Loewenstein, David
  • 2. Milton and the Struggle for the Representation of the Nation: Reading Paradise Lost through Eikonoklastes / Hadfield, Andrew
  • 3. Victory's Crest: Milton, the English Nation, and Cromwell / Chernaik, Warren
  • PART TWO. Nationhood, the English Church, and Non-Conformity
  • 4. Israel and English Protestant Nationalism: 'Fast Sermons' during the English Revolution / Guibbory, Achsah
  • 5. Look Homeward Angel: Guardian Angels and Nationhood in Seventeenth-Century England / Raymond, Joad
  • 6. The Invisible Nation: Church, State, and Schism in Milton's England / Escobedo, Andrew
  • PART THREE. Ethnicity and International Relations
  • 7. Milton and the Limitations of Englishness / Corns, Thomas N.
  • 8. The Anglo-Scoto-Dutch Triangle: Milton and Marvell to 1660 / Kerrigan, John
  • 9. Disappointed Nationalism: Milton in the Context of Seventeenth-Century Debates about the Nation-State / Kahn, Victoria
  • 10. How Milton's Nationalism Works: Globalization and the Possibilities of Positive Nationalism / Stevens, Paul
  • PART FOUR. Milton's Nationalism and Its Discontents: Gender, Luxury, Slavery
  • 11. That Fatal Boadicea: Depicting Women in Milton's History Of Britain, 1670 / Maley, Willy
  • 12. Consuming Nations: Milton and Luxury / Knoppers, Laura Lunger
  • 13. Slavery, Resistance, and Nation in Milton and Locke / Nyquist, Mary
  • PART FIVE. The Nationalization of Milton
  • 14. Milton: Nation and Reception / Maltzahn, Nicholas Von
  • Contributors
  • Index