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The New England Milton: Literary Reception and Cultural Authority in the Early Republic

The New England Milton: Literary Reception and Cultural Authority in the Early Republic

Van Anglen, Kevin

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0271028270
ISBN13: 9780271028279
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Apr 15 1993
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The New England Milton concentrates on the poet's place in the writings of the Unitarians and the Transcendentalists, especially Emerson, Thoreau, William Ellery Channing, Jones Very, Margaret Fuller, and Theodore Parker, and demonstrates that his reception by both groups was a function of their response as members of the New England elite to older and broader sociopolitical tensions in Yankee culture as it underwent the process of modernization. For Milton and his writings (particularly Paradise Lost) were themselves early manifestations of the continuing crisis of authority that later afflicted the dominant class and professions in Boston; and so, the Unitarian Milton, like the Milton of Emerson's lectures or Thoreau's Walden, quite naturally became the vehicle for literary attempts by these authors to resolve the ideological contradictions they had inherited from the Puritan past.

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