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Complete Works of John Milton
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early modern English Literature
early modern studies
English literature
English poetry
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Jacobean Period
Jacobeans
John Milton
literary neoclassicism
Lycidas
Milton and culture
Milton and gender
Milton and politics
Milton and the Bible
Milton Society of America
Miltons English
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Puritanism
radical heterodoxy
Samson Agonistes
The Romantics
Product details
- ISBN 9781118827826
- Weight: 1161g
- Dimensions: 175 x 252mm
- Publication Date: 18 Mar 2016
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies while reflecting the very latest advances in research in the field.
- Comprises 36 powerful readings of Milton's texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholar
- Retains 28 of the award-winning essays from the first edition, revised and updated to reflect the most recent research
- Contains a new section exploring Milton's global impact, in China, India, Japan, Korea, in Spanish speaking American and the Arab-speaking world
- Includes eight completely new full-length essays, each of which engages closely with Milton's poetic oeuvre, and a new chronology which sets Milton's life and work in the context of his age
- Explores literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, and responses to Milton over time
Thomas N. Corns is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Bangor University. Together with Gordon Campbell, he is the General Editor of The Complete Works of John Milton. His recent publications include John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought (with Gordon Campbell, 2008), an edition of the complete works of Gerrard Winstanley (with Ann Hughes and David Loewenstein, 2009), and The Milton Encyclopedia (2012). He is currently working with David Loewenstein on a scholarly edition of Paradise Lost. Professor Corns is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America.
