Milton, Evil and Literary History

by Claire Colebrook

Book Overview

Milton, Evil and Literary History addresses the ways in which we read literary history according to quite specific images of growth, development, progression, flourishing and succession. Goodness has always been aligned with a life of expansion, creation, production and fruition, while evil is associated with the inert, non-relational, static and stagnant. These associations have also underpinned a distinction between good and evil notions of capitalism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826484921
• ISBN13: 9780826484925
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.5"