Milton and the natural world : science and poetry in Paradise lost

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    • Edwards, Karen L.

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Milton and the natural world : science and poetry in Paradise lost

Karen L. Edwards

Cambridge University Press, 2005, c1999

  • : pbk

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"This digitally printed first paperback version 2005" -- T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-259) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Milton and the Natural World overturns prevailing critical assumptions by offering a fresh view of Paradise Lost, in which the representation of Eden's plants and animals is shown to be fully cognizant of the century's new, scientific natural history. The fabulous lore of the old science is wittily debunked, and the poem embraces new imaginative and symbolic possibilities for depicting the natural world, suggested by the speculations of Milton's scientific contemporaries including Robert Boyle, Thomas Browne and John Evelyn. Karen Edwards argues that Milton has represented the natural world in Paradise Lost, with its flowers and trees, insects and beasts, as a text alive with meaning and worthy of close reading.

目次

  • Introduction
  • Part I. Re-reading the Book of the World: 1. Corrupting experience: Satan and Eve
  • 2. Experimentalists and the book of the world
  • 3. The place of experimental reading
  • Part II. Reforming Animals: 4. Milton's complicated serpents
  • 5. New uses for monstrous lore
  • 6. From rarities to representatives
  • 7. Rehabilitating the political animal
  • Part III. Transplanting the Garden. 8. Naming and not naming
  • 9. Botanical discretion
  • 10. Flourishing colors
  • 11. The balm of life
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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