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Milton Unbound : Controversy and Reinterpretation

Name: Milton Unbound : Controversy and Reinterpretation
Author: John P. Rumrich
ISBN: 9780521032209

by John P. Rumrich

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Overview

John Milton holds a crucial strategic position on the intellectual and ideological map of literary studies. In this provocative and liberating study, John P. Rumrich contends that contemporary critics have contributed to the invention of a monolithic or institutional Milton: censorious preacher, aggressive mysogynist, and champion of the emerging bourgeoisie. Rumrich exposes the historical inaccuracies and logical inconsistencies that sustain this orthodoxy, and argues instead for a more complex Milton who was able to accommodate uncertainty and doubt.