Milton and the Natural World: Science and Poetry in Paradise LostCambridge University Press, 2005 M07 7 - 280 páginas Milton and the Natural World overturns prevailing critical assumptions by offering a fresh view of Paradise Lost, in which the representation of Eden's plants and animals is shown to be fully cognizant of the century's new, scientific natural history. The fabulous lore of the old science is wittily debunked, and the poem embraces new imaginative and symbolic possibilities for depicting the natural world, suggested by the speculations of Milton's scientific contemporaries including Robert Boyle, Thomas Browne and John Evelyn. Karen Edwards argues that Milton has represented the natural world in Paradise Lost, with its flowers and trees, insects and beasts, as a text alive with meaning and worthy of close reading. |
Contenido
Experimentalists and the book of the world | 40 |
The place of experimental reading | 64 |
Miltons complicated serpents | 85 |
New uses for monstrous lore | 99 |
From rarities to representatives | 115 |
Naming and not naming | 143 |
Botanical discretion | 154 |
Flourishing colors | 166 |
The balm of life | 182 |
Conclusion | 199 |
Bibliography | 245 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Milton and the Natural World: Science and Poetry in Paradise Lost Karen L. Edwards Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |
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Referencias a este libro
Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell Diane Kelsey McColley Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance Robert N. Watson,Robert Watson Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |