Milton’s Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination. By Joad Raymond
Joad Raymond’s previous work on early modern newspapers and pamphleteering marks this work as a somewhat unexpected but welcome departure into literature and theology: his exceptionally broad-minded approach is remarkable in a field too often marred by religious or political bias. Raymond himself qu...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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Literature and theology
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 119-121 |
| Review of: | Milton's Angels (Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2010) (Martin, Catherine Gimelli)
Milton's angels (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010) (Martin, Catherine Gimelli) Milton's angels (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2010) (Martin, Catherine Gimelli) |
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| Summary: | Joad Raymond’s previous work on early modern newspapers and pamphleteering marks this work as a somewhat unexpected but welcome departure into literature and theology: his exceptionally broad-minded approach is remarkable in a field too often marred by religious or political bias. Raymond himself quite rightly objects to the current tendency to read religious literature ‘allegorically’, that is, as thinly disguised propaganda for one’s political party or position. He similarly objects to critical readings that narrowly interpret spiritual or elegiac lyrics as chiefly promoting anti-popery, colonial ambitions or even national identity in anything like the modern sense of the word. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frs066 |