A New Companion to Milton [Hardcover]

A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies while reflecting the very latest advances in research in the field.

• Comprises 36 powerful readings of Milton's texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholar
• Retains 28 of the award-winning essays from the first edition, revised and updated to reflect the most recent research
• Contains a new section exploring Milton's global impact, in China, India, Japan, Korea, in Spanish speaking American and the Arab-speaking world
• Includes eight completely new full-length essays, each of which engages closely with Milton's poetic oeuvre, and a new chronology which sets Milton's life and work in the context of his age
• Explores literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, and responses to Milton over time

Notes on Contributors ix

Preface xvii

Note on Editions Used xviii

List of Abbreviations xix

Part I The Cultural Context 1

1 Genre 3
Barbara K. Lewalski

2 The Classical Literary Tradition 22
John K. Hale

3 Milton on the Bible 37
Regina M. Schwartz

4 Literary Baroque and Literary Neoclassicism 55
Graham Parry

5 Milton and English Poetry 71
Achsah Guibbory

6 Milton's English 90
Thomas N. Corns

Part II Politics and Religion 107