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Milton and Catholicism

Title: Milton and Catholicism / edited by Ronald Corthell and Thomas N. Corns.
Publication: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2017]

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viii, 212 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This collection of original essays by literary critics and historians analyzes a wide range of Milton's writing, from his early poetry, through his mid-century political prose, to De Doctrina Christiana, which was unpublished in his lifetime, and finally to his last and greatest poems. The contributors investigate the rich variety of approaches to Milton's engagement with Catholicism and its relationship to reformed religion. The essays address latent tensions and contradictions, explore the nuances of Milton's relationship to the easy commonplaces of Protestant compatriots, and disclose the polemical strategies and tactics that often shape that engagement. The contributors link Milton and Catholicism with early modern confessional conflicts between Catholics and Protestants that in turn led to new models and standards of authority, scholarship, and interiority. In Milton's case, he deployed anti-Catholicism as a rhetorical device and the negative example out of which Protestants could shape their identity. The contributors argue that Milton's anti-Catholicism aligns with his understanding of inwardness and conscience and illuminates one of the central conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in the period. Building on recent scholarship on Catholic and anti-Catholic discourses over the English Tudor and Stuart period, new understandings of martyrdom, and scholarship on Catholic women, Milton and Catholicism provides a diverse and multifaceted investigation into a complex and little explored field in Milton studies. Contributors: Alastair Bellany, Thomas Cogswell, Thomas N. Corns, Ronald Corthell, Angelica Duran, Martin Dzelzainis, John Flood, Estelle Haan, and Elizabeth Sauer"--

Subject

Genre/Form

Church history.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Ronald Corthell and Thomas N. Corns -- Milton and the Protestant Pope / Elizabeth Sauer -- John Milton and George Eglisham : The English Revolution and Catholic Disinformation / Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell -- Milton, Sir Henry Vane the Younger, and the Toleration of Catholics / Martin Dzelzainis -- Roman Catholicism, De Doctrina Christiana, and the Paradise of Fools / Thomas N. Corns -- "How Gird the Sphear"? : Catholic Spain in Milton's Poetry / Angelica Duran -- "Coelum non Animum Muto"? : Milton's Neo-Latin Poetry and Catholic Italy / Estelle Haan -- Marian Controversies and Milton's Virgin Mary / John Flood.

Call Number

JFE 17-11016

ISBN

9780268100810
0268100810

LCCN

2017024326

OCLC

987796402

Title

Milton and Catholicism / edited by Ronald Corthell and Thomas N. Corns.

Publisher

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1600-1699

Added Author

Corthell, Ronald, 1949- editor.

Corns, Thomas N., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Milton and Catholicism Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2017 9780268100834 (DLC) 2017025753

Research Call Number

JFE 17-11016

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