Arenas of Conflict: Milton and the Unfettered MindKristin Pruitt McColgan, Charles W. Durham Susquehanna University Press, 1997 - 290 pages The nineteen essays in this collection explore such varied fields of argument as John Milton's authorship of the Christian Doctrine, his adaptations of source material, his engagement in political controversies, his attitudes toward gender in Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes, and his reflection of seventeenth-century obstetrics and anticipation of modern chaos theory in Paradise Lost. In their sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory, and consistently interrogative views of Milton and his work, these essays offer an "arena of conflict" for future studies. |
Contents
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Miltons Transgressive Maneuvers | 21 |
Ramblings in Elucidation of the Authorship of the Christian | 41 |
Milton and Womans Rights | 51 |
Miltons History of Britain and the One Just | 65 |
A Fraternal Harmony | 77 |
Lady Alice | 93 |
Paradise Lost and the Paradoxes of Political | 107 |
Raphaels Roles in the Book of Tobit | 183 |
The Education of Miltons Good Angels | 193 |
SeventeenthCentury Obstetrics | 212 |
Milton and the Winds of Folly | 227 |
Paradisal Appetite and Cusan Food in Paradise Lost | 239 |
Dalila Eve and the Concept of Woman in Miltons Radical | 251 |
Dalila Misogyny and the De Casibus Tradition | 261 |
Filling in the Spaces in the Biblical Text | 271 |
The Politics of Love in Paradise Lost | 120 |
Chaos Theory | 140 |
The Wages of Sin and the Laws | 161 |
Contributors | 282 |
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