Milton and the parables of Jesus : self-representation and the Bible in John Milton's writings
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Milton and the parables of Jesus : self-representation and the Bible in John Milton's writings
(Medieval and Renaissance literary studies)
Pennsylvania State University Press, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-296) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In Milton and the Parables of Jesus, David V. Urban examines Milton's self-referential use of figures from the New Testament parables in his works of poetry and prose.
Urban's informative introduction explores the history of parable interpretation and the writings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Reformed biblical commentators, including John Calvin, Matthew Poole, and John Trapp, whose approaches to interpreting the parables resemble Milton's own. Urban then goes on to analyze Milton's early poetry and prose; his great epic, Paradise Lost; and his final major poetic works, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. By chronologically tracing Milton's habit of identifying himself both directly and indirectly with figures represented in Jesus's parables, Urban delves deeply into the development of Milton's attitudes toward himself, God, and society.
This comprehensive study opens up a new avenue of inquiry regarding Milton's hermeneutic of parables and his writings as a whole. Urban's insightful analysis will be invaluable to scholars and students of John Milton, early modern Christianity and literature, and the Reformation.
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Milton's Hermeneutic of Parables, Milton's Parabolic Imagination
Part 1: The Parable of the Talents and the Parable of the Laborers
1. The Talented Mr. Milton: A Parabolic Laborer and His Identity
2. Samson's Late Call: Parabolic Tension and Resolution in Samson Agonistes
3. Abdiel and the Son: Milton's Ideal Relationship with the Two Parables in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
Part 2: The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins
4. A "Virgin Wise and Pure": Parabolic Self-Reference in Sonnet 9
5. The Wise Virgin in Action: The Lady of A Mask
6. Wise Virginity Lost in Paradise Lost
7. Perfect and Recovered Virginity in Paradise Regained and Samsom Agonistes
Part 3: The Parable of the Householder
8. "Out of His Treasury Things New and Old": The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce and De Doctrina Christiana
9. Milton's Epic Narrators and the Son and Mary in Paradise Regained
10. Internal and External Scripture in Samson Agonistes
Notes
Index
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