Milton, toleration, and nationhood

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Milton, toleration, and nationhood

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Elizabeth Sauer, Brock University

Creator

• Sauer, Elizabeth, 1964-

Subject

• Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1714
• Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Political and social views
• Nationalism -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Electronic books
• Nationalism in literature
• Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
• Nationalism and literature

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

"John Milton lived at a time when English nationalism became entangled with principles and policies of cultural, religious, and ethnic tolerance. Combining political theory with close readings of key texts, this study examines how Milton's polemical and imaginative prose intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood. Through detailed case studies of Milton's works, Elizabeth Sauer charts the fluctuating narrative of Milton's literary engagements in relation to social, political, and philosophical themes such as ecclesiology, exclusionism, Irish alterity, natural law, disestablishment, geography, and intermarriage. In so doing, Sauer shows the extent to which nationhood and toleration can be subjected to literary and historicist inquiry. Her study makes a salient contribution to Milton studies and to scholarship on Early Modern literature and the development of the early nation-state"--

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contains biographical information

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography