Milton's angels [[electronic resource] ] : the early modern imagination / / Joad Raymond
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| Autore: |
Raymond Joad
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| Titolo: |
Milton's angels [[electronic resource] ] : the early modern imagination / / Joad Raymond
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (484 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 821/.4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Angels in literature |
| Theology in literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Lost11. 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 Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels. It is told by and of angels; it relies upon their conflicts, communications, and miscommunications. They are the creatures of Milton's narrative, through which he sets the Fall of humankind against a cosmic background.Milton's angels are real beings, and the stories he tells about them rely on his understanding of what they were and how they acted. While he was unique in the sublimity of his imaginative rendering of angels, he was not alone |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Milton's angels |
| ISBN: | 9786612490583 |
| 1-282-49058-3 | |
| 0-19-157311-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910465648003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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