Milton and the Poetics of Freedom |
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| Author:
| Woods, Susanne |
| Series title: | Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8207-0466-1 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
| Publisher: | Duquesne University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $74.95 |
Book Description:
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In our contemporary Western culture, freedom is a powerful term with elastic meanings and contradictory uses; it has both driven rebellion and justified empire. John Milton's world, like our own, struggled to understand freedom within what was already considered a heritage of political and personal liberty, compounded in the seventeenth ......
In our contemporary Western culture, freedom is a powerful term with elastic meanings and contradictory uses; it has both driven rebellion and justified empire. John Milton's world, like our own, struggled to understand freedom within what was already considered a heritage of political and personal liberty, compounded in the seventeenth ......