Milton, Evil and Literary History [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Colebrook Claire
• Pubblicazione: London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (167 p.)
• Disciplina: 821.4
• Soggetto topico: Good and evil in literature; Good and evil -- Philosophy; Life in literature; Meaning (Philosophy) in literature; Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History; Symbolism in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Life, Economy, Evil; 1 Milton's History of Reason and Church Government; 2 Capital Time, Production and Generation; 3 Allegory, Analogy and the Form of the World; 4 Gender and Contrariety; 5 History, Becoming and Reason; Conclusion: Excremental Whiteness; Notes; Works Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Milton, Evil and Literary History addresses the ways in which we read literary history according to quite specific images of growth, development, progression, flourishing and succession. Goodness has always been aligned with a life of expansion, creation, production and fruition, while evil is associated with the inert, non-relational, static and stagnant. These associations have also underpinned a distinction between good and evil notions of capitalism, where good exchange enables agents to enhance their living potential and is contrasted with the evils of a capitalist system that circulate
• Titolo autorizzato: Milton, Evil and Literary History
• ISBN: 1-283-20228-X; 9786613202284; 1-4411-0362-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789687703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Continuum Literary Studies