Milton's Imperial Epic : : Paradise Lost and the Discourse of Colonialism / / J. Martin Evans.

Written during the crucial first phase of English empire-building in the New World, Paradise Lost registers the radically divided attitudes toward the settlement of America that existed in seventeenth-century Protestant England. Evans looks at the relationship between Milton's epic and the perv...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1996
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Colonial Idea
  • 2. The Colony
  • This nether Empire (2.296)
  • A Wilderness of sweets (5.294)
  • Brutal kind (g.s6s)
  • 3. The Colonists
  • Great adventurer (10.440)
  • Heav’nly stranger (5.316)
  • Fellow servant (8.225)
  • That fixt mind ( 1.97)
  • 4. The Colonized
  • This new happie Race of Men (3.679)
  • Alienate from God (5.877)
  • 5. The Narrator
  • Hesperian Fables true (4.250)
  • Adventrous song (1.13)
  • Eternal Providence ( 1.25)
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index