Milton's Imperial Epic

by J. Martin Evan and J. Martin Evans

Written during the crucial first phase of English empire-building in the New World, Paradise Lost registers the radically divided attitudes toward the settlement of America that existed in seventeenth-century Protestant England. Evans looks at the relationship between Milton's epic and the pervasive colonial discourse of Milton's time. Evans bases his analysis on the literature of exploration and colonialism. The primary sources on which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801432111
• ISBN13: 9780801432118
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher