The Human Satan in Seventeenth-Century English Literature: From Milton to Rochester

by Nancy Rosenfeld and Nancy Rosenfeld

Book Overview

Framed by an understanding that the very concept of what defines the human is often influenced by Renaissance and early modern texts, this book establishes the beginning of the literary development of the satanic form into a humanized form in the seventeenth century. This development is centered on characters and poetry of four seventeenth-century writers: the Satan character in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, the Tempter in John...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138261890
• ISBN13: 9781138261891
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"