Beschreibung:
In Milton's Warring Angels, William Kolbrener provides a critical account of the reception and interpretation of Milton's texts.
Introduction; Part I. Politics: 1. 'Plainly partiall': the liberal Areopagitica; 2. 'Not the readiest way': Milton and the abandonment of politics; Part II. Theology: 3. Introduction: Whig metaphysics; 4. 'Abnormal forms of discourse': Milton's De Doctrina Christiana; 5. 'Milton contrasted with Milton': multiplicity in De Doctrina Christiana; Part III. Poetics: 6. Those grand Whigs, Bentley and Fish; 7. A 'noble stroke': representation in Paradise Lost; Conclusion: devils, angels and Milton; Notes; Index.