Milton and the Politics of Public Speech |
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Author:
| Lynch, Helen |
ISBN: | 978-1-322-87240-7 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2015 |
Publisher: | Ashgate Publishing Company
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $119.95 |
Book Description:
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Using Hannah Arendt s account of the Greek polis to explain Milton s fascination with the idea of public speech, this book reveals what is distinctive about his conception of a godly, republican oratory and poetics. Setting Milton s poetry and prose in the context of Civil War polemic; classical political theory and its early modern reinterpretations; and Renaissance writing on rhetoric and poetic language, the volume culminates in an Arendtian reading of his Greek drama Samson Agonistes."
Using Hannah Arendt s account of the Greek polis to explain Milton s fascination with the idea of public speech, this book reveals what is distinctive about his conception of a godly, republican oratory and poetics. Setting Milton s poetry and prose in the context of Civil War polemic; classical political theory and its early modern reinterpretations; and Renaissance writing on rhetoric and poetic language, the volume culminates in an Arendtian reading of his Greek drama Samson Agonistes."