Milton, Evil and Literary History

by Claire Colebrook

Book Overview

Using the work of John Milton and his conflict between good and evil, Claire Colebrook shows exactly how we read literary history according to quite specific images of growth, development, progression, flourishing and succession. Colebrook illustrates not only how goodness is aligned with images of a life of expansion, creation, production and fruition, while evil is associated with the inert, non-relational, static and stagnant, but how these associations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441193731
• ISBN13: 9781441193735
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"