One Flesh Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the Age of Milton |
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| Author:
| Turner, James Grantham |
| Series title: | Clarendon Paperbacks Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-818249-8 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1994 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Clarendon Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $110.00 |
Book Description:
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This detailed and incisive study of Milton's confrontation with his precursors and contemporaries, establishes him as a monumental but divided figure - torn between radical and conservative mentalities, between eroticism and hatred of the flesh, and between patriarchal and egalitarian conceptions of Paradisal marriage.
This detailed and incisive study of Milton's confrontation with his precursors and contemporaries, establishes him as a monumental but divided figure - torn between radical and conservative mentalities, between eroticism and hatred of the flesh, and between patriarchal and egalitarian conceptions of Paradisal marriage.