| Description |
x, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"Those thoughts that wander through eternity" / Juliet Cummins -- Part 1: Millennium -- 1. Milton and the millennium / Barbara K. Lewalski -- 2. Mede, Milton, and more: Christ's College millenarians / Sarah Hutton -- 3. Milton and millenarianism: from the Nativity Ode to Paradise Regained / Stella P. Revard -- 4. Astronomical signs in Paradise Lost: Milton, Ophiucus, and the millennial debate / Malabika Sarkar -- 5. The millennial moment: Milton vs. "Milton" / William B. Hunter -- 6. Confusion: the apocalypse, the millennium / John T. Shawcross -- Part 2: Apocalypse -- 7. John Martin's apocalyptic illustrations to Paradise Lost / Beverley Sherry -- 8. The enclosed garden and the apocalypse: immanent versus transcendent time in Milton and Marvell / Catherine Gimelli Martin -- 9. Matter and apocalyptic transformation in Paradise Lost / Juliet Cummins -- 10. "New heav'ns, new earth": apocalypse and the loss of sacramentality in the postlapsarian books of Paradise Lost / Claude N. Stulting, Jr. -- 11. The apocalypse in Paradise Regained / Ken Simpson -- 12. Inspiration and melancholy in Samson Agonistes / Karen L. Edwards -- Afterword: "The time is come" / David Loewenstein. |
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Time in literature.
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Time in literature. |
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Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism.
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Apocalyptic literature. |
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End of the world in literature.
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End of the world in literature. |
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Millennialism in literature.
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Millennialism in literature. |
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Apocalypse in literature.
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Apocalypse in literature. |
| Added Author |
Cummins, Juliet.
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| ISBN |
0521816653 hardback |
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