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. |
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... natural principles , " Mathews counters critical interpretations of Milton's God as punitive and authoritarian ... natures , not allegorical figures , are the focus of Janna Thacher Farris's investigation of the apocryphal Book of Tobit ...
... natural principles , " Mathews counters critical interpretations of Milton's God as punitive and authoritarian ... natures , not allegorical figures , are the focus of Janna Thacher Farris's investigation of the apocryphal Book of Tobit ...
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... nature and extent of the transgressions themselves and by granting , as a working premise , that what is still the crucial interpretive issue is suggested by the dedicatory poems accompanying the second edition of Paradise Lost : is ...
... nature and extent of the transgressions themselves and by granting , as a working premise , that what is still the crucial interpretive issue is suggested by the dedicatory poems accompanying the second edition of Paradise Lost : is ...
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... nature , woman was made for man and not man from woman , therefore was man made first and woman after , and so doth the Apostle reason in two places where he handles the difference of Sexes , I Cor . 11. 8 , 9. I Tim . 2. 13. " Holding ...
... nature , woman was made for man and not man from woman , therefore was man made first and woman after , and so doth the Apostle reason in two places where he handles the difference of Sexes , I Cor . 11. 8 , 9. I Tim . 2. 13. " Holding ...
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... nature . " " [ M ] ost of all , " says Willet , woman is thus " ioyned to man , because of the promised seede of the woman , of whome came our Saviour Christ . " No less than man , Willet contends , " shee had her soule from God ...
... nature . " " [ M ] ost of all , " says Willet , woman is thus " ioyned to man , because of the promised seede of the woman , of whome came our Saviour Christ . " No less than man , Willet contends , " shee had her soule from God ...
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... nature and being . " 21 For Salkeld , humankind's likeness to God is the best evidence we have that " man should not haue . . . power ouer man , " that " all were to bee equall in power and dominion " and hence that the conditions of ...
... nature and being . " 21 For Salkeld , humankind's likeness to God is the best evidence we have that " man should not haue . . . power ouer man , " that " all were to bee equall in power and dominion " and hence that the conditions of ...
Contents
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Ramblings in Elucidation of the Authorship of the Christian | 41 |
Milton and Womans Rights | 51 |
Miltons History of Britain and the One Just | 65 |
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A Fraternal Harmony | 77 |
Lady Alice | 93 |
The Wages of Sin and the Laws | 161 |
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 |
Paradise Lost and the Paradoxes of Political | 107 |
The Politics of Love in Paradise Lost | 120 |
The Dynamics of Punishment | 129 |
Chaos Theory | 140 |
Filling in the Spaces in the Biblical Text | 271 |
Contributors | 282 |
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Page 97 - And serious doctrine of virginity; And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know More happiness than this thy present lot. Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, 790 That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
Page 55 - Unargued I obey : so God ordains; God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.
Page 122 - It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say of knowing good by evil.
Page 54 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him...
Page 261 - But God left free the will, for what obeys Reason is free, and reason he made right...
Page 87 - Heaven is saintly chastity, that, when a soul is found sincerely so, a thousand. liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear; till oft converse with heavenly habitants begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, the unpolluted temple of the mind, and turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, till all be made immortal.
Page 80 - Peace, brother: be not over-exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils; For, grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?
Page 111 - Whereto thus Adam fatherly displeased. "O execrable son so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given; He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.