LEADER 04575nam 22007455 450 001 9910983377103321 005 20251204102211.0 010 $a9783031739590$b(eBook) 010 $z9783031739583 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-73959-0 035 $a(OCoLC)1475015210 035 $a(CKB)36590715900041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-73959-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)9936590715900041 100 $a20241117d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#|||maa|a 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMilton Reinvented $eCultural Reception in 19th-Century America and ?Our Day? /$fby David Boocker 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 156 pages) $cillustrations, facsimiles 311 08$aPrint version: Boocker, David Milton Reinvented Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2024] 9783031739583 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction: Emphatically American Milton -- Chapter 2: ?Religion is freeing itself?: Milton and Religious Liberty in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 3: ?In the company of Milton?: Milton and Abolition in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 4: ?Women Are Indebted to Milton?: Milton and Woman?s Rights in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 5: Milton in Our Day. 330 $aThis book focuses on the cultural reception of Milton and his works in nineteenth-century America. Using reception theory, the work analyzes the contributions of Milton and his writings to demonstrate how major social movements appropriated him in ways that ?reinvent? him, making him what Margaret Fuller called ?emphatically American.? The book centers on Milton?s influence on the movements focused on the development of American Christianity, abolition, and women?s suffrage. Each group approaches his writings with different ?horizons of expectations? determined, in part, by the social problems they address. Each has unique ways of disseminating and consuming information about Milton and his writings, sometimes determined by how readers in different geographical locations read him. And, each debate makes extensive use of American periodicals of the period, revealing critical information about how Milton?s writings were disseminated and deployed. Milton?s presence in these debates helped shape American society at the time and provides proof for us of how Milton can remain relevant in the issues faced by Americans in ?our day.? David Boocker is Professor of Literature at the University of Nebraska Omaha, USA. His research interests include Renaissance and Early Modern Literature and Milton and his Influence. David?s published work includes ?Milton after 9/11,? in Milton and Popular Culture, ?Milton and the Woman Controversy,? in A Search for Meaning: Critical Essays on Early Modern Literature,? and ?'Women are indebted to Milton?': Milton and Women?s Rights in the Nineteenth Century,? in Arenas of Conflict: Milton and the Unfettered Mind (winner of the Milton Society of American Irene Samuel Award for the best multi-author collection of essays). 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y17th century 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aUnited States$xHistory 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aSeventeenth-Century Literature 606 $aLiterary Theory 606 $aLiterary History 606 $aUS History 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aUnited States$xHistory. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 14$aSeventeenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aLiterary Theory. 615 24$aLiterary History. 615 24$aUS History. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 676 $a809.032 700 $aBoocker$b David$01784297 801 0$bYDX 801 1$bYDX 801 2$bOCLCO 801 2$bOCLCQ 801 2$bYDX 801 2$bCSt 801 2$bPUL 801 2$bCaOWtU 912 $a9910983377103321 996 $aMilton Reinvented$94315974 997 $aUNINA