Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader

by Lucy Newlyn

Book Overview

Was Milton on the side of the angels or the devils? Was he republican or anti-republican, feminist or misogynist? Did he value innocence or experience? This book shows how the Romantic reader responded, in complex and often paradoxical ways, to multiple ambiguities inherent in the very language of Paradise Lost. It examines ambivalent allusions to Satan and God, in responses to the French Revolution (Coleridge and Wordsworth), in studies of the origin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199242585
• ISBN13: 9780199242580
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"