The New England Milton: Literary Reception and Cultural Authority in the Early Republic - Couverture rigide

Van Anglen, Kevin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0271008482 ISBN 13 : 9780271008486

Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993

Synopsis

The New England Milton concentrates on the poet's place in the writings of the Unitarians and the Transcendentalists, especially Emerson, Thoreau, William Ellery Channing, Jones Very, Margaret Fuller, and Theodore Parker, and demonstrates that his reception by both groups was a function of their response as members of the New England elite to older and broader sociopolitical tensions in Yankee culture as it underwent the process of modernization. For Milton and his writings (particularly Paradise Lost) were themselves early manifestations of the continuing crisis of authority that later afflicted the dominant class and professions in Boston; and so, the Unitarian Milton, like the Milton of Emerson's lectures or Thoreau's Walden, quite naturally became the vehicle for literary attempts by these authors to resolve the ideological contradictions they had inherited from the Puritan past.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

K. P. Van Anglen is Lecturer on History and Literature and Keeper of the F. O. Matthiessen Collection, Harvard University. He is the editor of the Translations volume of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau (1986), and a contributor to the forthcoming Excursions volume in that series.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0271008482
• ISBN 13: 9780271008486
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
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