Milton and the Poetics of Freedom

by Susanne Woods

In our contemporary Western culture, freedom is a powerful term with elastic meanings and contradictory uses; it has both driven rebellion and justified empire. John Milton's world, like our own, struggled to understand freedom within what was already considered a heritage of political and personal liberty, compounded in the seventeenth century by theological questions of freedom. In this important new study, Susanne Woods reveals Milton's central...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820704660
• ISBN13: 9780820704661
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"