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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Named Person: | John Milton; John Milton; John Milton; John Milton |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Shannon Miller |
ISBN: | 9780812240863 0812240863 |
OCLC Number: | 1038548408 |
Description: | viii, 280 p. ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Serpentine Eve : plotting gender in the seventeenth-century garden -- Gazing, gender, and the construction of governance in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve deus rex judaeorum and Milton's Paradise lost -- Milton among the prophets : inspiration and gendered discourse in the mid-seventeenth century -- Maternity, marriage, and contract : Lucy Hutchinson's response to patriarchal theory in Order and disorder -- The two faces of Eve : gendering knowledge and the "new" science in Paradise lost and Margaret Cavendish's Blazing world -- Rewriting creation : Mary Chudleigh's The song of the three children paraphras'd and Paradise lost -- Spaces and traces of the garden story in Aphra Ben and Mary Astell : mapping female subjectivit(ies) through patriarchialist discourse -- Conclusion : influencing traditions of interpretation. |
Other Titles: | John Milton and seventeenth-century women writers |
Responsibility: | Shannon Miller. |
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This is an ambitious book, tackling some central issues in the study of seventeenth-century literature and history, and the first book to bring interpretations of the Fall story by Milton and his female contemporaries, from the Jacobean period to the end of the century, into a sustained dialogue. * David Norbrook, University of Oxford * Engendering the Fall enriches our view of Milton, of women writers, and of the literature of gender and statecraft. * <i>TLS</i> * Read more...
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