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Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade »

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Authors: Stephen B. Dobranski
ISBN-13: 9780521119009, ISBN-10: 0521119006
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: September 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Stephen B. Dobranski

Book Synopsis

Original study of Milton's authorship and the material production of his texts in relation to the booktrade.

Table of Contents

Introduction: the author John Milton;

1. The labor of book-writing and book-making;
2. Restoring Samson Agonistes;
3. The myth of the solitary genius;
4. Fair Milton's counterfeit;
5. Letters and spirit in Areopagitica;
6. The mystery of Milton as licenser;
7. The poet John Milton, 1673; Afterword.

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