Politics, Poetics, and Hermeneutics in Milton's Prose

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In this book some of the most eminent critics of seventeenth-century literature and some of the liveliest younger scholars explore the interconnections between Milton’, s politics, poetics and prose writings. While the essays focus on Milton’, s prose, they open up interesting perspectives on his major poems and on seventeenth-century ideologies, theologies and interpretative practices. Their aim is to bridge the gap between a history-of-ideas approach and literary/textual analysis, showing how key ideas - such as authority, divorce, martyrdom or iconoclasm - stimulate and trouble the imagination of a great writer. These essays challenge the notion of Milton’, s prose as an ‘, achievement of the left hand’, , and propose a complex relation between text and context, the aesthetic and the sociopolitical, issues of representation and the politics of gender.