Authors: Jeffrey Shoulson
ISBN-13: 9780231123297, ISBN-10: 0231123299
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: October 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Taking as its starting point the long-standing characterization of Milton as a "Hebraic" writer, Milton and the Rabbis probes the limits of the relationship between the seventeenth-century English poet and polemicist and his Jewish antecedents. Shoulson´s analysis moves back and forth between Milton´s writings and Jewish wr
Shoulson brings the light of brilliant analysis to numerous vexing issues in Milton's writings.
Acknowledgments | ||
A Note on the Texts | ||
Introduction: Hebraism and Literary History | 1 | |
1 | Diaspora and Restoration | 10 |
2 | "Taking Sanctuary Among the Jews": Milton and the Form of Jewish Precedent | 45 |
3 | The Poetics of Accommodation: Theodicy and the Language of Kingship | 93 |
4 | Imagining Desire: Divine and Human Creativity | 135 |
5 | "So Shall the World Go On": Martyrdom, Interpretation, and History | 189 |
Epilogue: Toward Interpreting the Hebraism of Samson Agonistes | 240 | |
Notes | 263 | |
Selected Bibliography | 309 | |
Index | 329 |