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Faithful Labourers: a Reception History of Paradise Lost, 1667-1970 : Volume I: Style and Genre...
ISBN: 9780199666553 | 0199666555
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/1/2013
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Faithful Labourers surveys and evaluates existing criticism of John Milton's epic Paradise Lost, tracing the major debates as they have unfolded over the past three centuries. Eleven chapters split over two volumes consider the key debates in Milton criticism, including discussion of Milton's style, his use of the epic genre, and his references to Satan, God, innocence, the fall, sex, nakedness, and astronomy.Volume one attends to questions of style and genre. The first three chapters examine the longstanding debate about Milton's grand style a... MORE
Volume One: Style and Genre
I. Sound and Sense: 1667-1800
II. The Grand Style: 1800-1900
III. The Milton Controversy: 1900-1970
IV. Paradise Lost and Epic
V. Epic Similes
Volume Two: Interpretative Issues
VI. Satan
VII. God
VIII. Innocence
IX. The Fall
X. Sex and the Sexes
XI. The Universe
John Leonard was educated at the University of Cambridge (BA 1980, PhD 1986) and moved to Canada in 1987. He has taught at the University of Western Ontario since 1987. He has twice won the Milton Society of America's James Holly Hanford Award: once for 'most distinguished book published on Milton' (1990) and once for 'most distinguished article' (2000).
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