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Milton studies XLIII

This work includes nine essays that examine Milton's assimilation of Jesus' parables into his shorter works, the applicability of cognitive science to better appreciate several of the predominant metaphors in "Comus", and a revisionist reading of Milton's engagement with biblical typology.
Print Book, English, ©2004
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, ©2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780822942160, 082294216X
56596835
The talented Mr. Milton: a parabolic laborer and his identity / David V. Urban
Bodily metaphor and moral agency in A masque: a cognitive approach / Beth Bradburn
Repairing the ruins: Milton as reader and educator / Thomas Festa
The concept of the "hireling" in Milton's theology / David Hawkes
Milton's parable of misreading: navigating the contextual waters of the "night-founder'd skiff" in Paradise lost, 1.192-209 / Bryan Adams Hampton
"His tyranny who reigns": the biblical roots of divine kingship and Milton's rejection of "heav'n's king" / Michael Bryson
Milton's "birth abortive": remaking family at the end of Paradise lost / Erin Murphy
Paradise regained as rule of charity: religious toleration and the end of typology / Phillip J. Donnelly
"Ill fare the hands that heaved the stones": John Milton, a preliminary thanatography / Carol Barton