Renaissance Ecology
Imagining Eden in Milton's England
Edited by Ken Hiltner
The essays in Renaissance Ecology consider how writers and artists such as John Milton imagined, by way of Eden, a future where human beings would live in greater peace with the natural world. This impressive collection, which includes contributions by such eminent scholars as Barbara Lewalski and Diane McColley, takes an exciting, new, "green" approach to representations of Eden, while also considering the role of gender, politics, and poetics, discussing relevant issues of both literature and culture. More...
Available January 2008
$62.00s Cloth / ISBN: 0-8207-0402-4 / ISBN-13: 978-0-8207-0402-9
"Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books"
An Authoritative Text of the 1667 First Edition
Transcribed and edited with commentary by John T. Shawcross & Michael Lieb
"Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books": An Authoritative Text of the 1667 First Edition is the first such presentation of the first edition of this major epic of English literature. Constructed as a 10-book version, the edition is a finished piece that is architecturally and numerically balanced, significantly differing from the now-standard 1674 version that appeared in 12 books. More...
Available October 2007
$68.00s Cloth / ISBN: 0-8207-0392-3 / ISBN-13: 978-0-8207-0392-3
"Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books"
Essays on the 1667 First Edition
Appearing in tandem with the first publication of an authoritative text of the 1667 first edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost, these insightful essays by ten Miltonists establish the significant differences in the text, context, and effect of the first edition of Paradise Lost from those of the now-standard second edition of 1674. More...
Available October 2007
$60.00s Cloth / ISBN: 0-8207-0393-1 / ISBN-13: 978-0-8207-0393-0
Spiritual Architecture and Paradise Regained
Milton's Literary Ecclesiology
By Ken Simpson
This study is a response to a continuing debate stimulated primarily by cultural materialist and new historicist claims that the early modern self was decentered and fragmented by forces in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Terry Sherwood enters this debate by rejecting claims of such radical discontinuity characterizing a “contingent” and “provisional” self incapable of unified subjectivity. More...
$60.00s Cloth / ISBN: 0-8207-0395-8 / ISBN-13: 978-0-8207-0395-4
The Self in Early Modern Literature
For the Common Good
By Terry G. Sherwood
This study is a response to a continuing debate stimulated primarily by cultural materialist and new historicist claims that the early modern self was decentered and fragmented by forces in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Terry Sherwood enters this debate by rejecting claims of such radical discontinuity characterizing a “contingent” and “provisional” self incapable of unified subjectivity. More...
$60.00s Cloth / ISBN: 0-8207-0395-8 / ISBN-13: 978-0-8207-0395-4
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