Politics Poetics and Hermeneutics in Milton's Prose

In This Book Some Of The Most Eminent Critics Of Seventeenth-Century Literature And Some Of The Liveliest Younger Scholars Explore The Interconnections Among Milton''S Politics Poetics And Prose Writings. While The Essays Focus On Milton''S Prose They Open Up New Perspectives On His Major Poems And On Seventeenth-Century Ideologies Theologies And Interpretive Practices. These Essays Challenge The Notion Of Milton''S Prose As An Achievement Of The Left Hand Proposing A Complex Relation Between Text And Context The Aesthetic And The Sociopolitical Issues Of Representation And The Politics Of Gender.