Milton's angels : the early modern imagination / / Joad Raymond

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910961067203321
• Autore: Raymond Joad
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 9780191573118; 0191573116
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 465 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 821.4
• Soggetti: Angels in literature; Theology in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations and Conventions -- 1. Introduction: Protestant Angels, Poets, the Imagination -- I. UNDERSTANDING ANGELS -- 2. Angelographia: Writing about Angels -- 3. Angelology: Knowledge of Angels -- 4. A Stronger Existence: Angels, Polemic, and Radical Speculation, 1640-1660 -- 5. Conversations with Angels: The Pordages and their Angelical World -- 6. The Fleshly Imagination and the Word of God -- 7. Spiritual Gifts: Angels, Inspiration, and Prophecy -- II. MILTON'S ANGELS -- 8. Can Angels Feign? -- 9. Look Homeward Angel: Angelic Guardianship and Nationhood -- 10. Angels in Paradise Lost -- 11. The Natural Philosophy of Angels -- 12. 'With the Tongues of Angels': Angelic Communication -- III. LITERATURE AND REPRESENTATION -- 13. Dryden's Fall: Dreams, Angels, Freewill -- 14. Conclusion: Angels and Literary Representation -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: Milton's Angels is a study of writing - theological, scientific, political, and poetic - about angels in 16th-century and 17th-century Britain. It demonstrates that angels were integral to the Protestant imagination and argues that Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative.