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Author(s): David Williams Date: 2024 Format: pdf Language: English ISBN/ASIN: 0773550348   Pages: 512 OCR: Quality: ISBN13:   Uploader: risotor Upload Date: 10/4/2023 12:08:12 PM       To download click on link in the Links Table below                                                                        Description: Click to see full description Three and a half centuries after Paradise Lost and Paradise Regaind were written, do Miltons epic poems still resonate with contemporary concerns? In Miltons Leveller God, David Williams advances a progressive and democratic interpretation of Miltons epics to show they are more relevant than ever. Exploring two blind spots in the critical tradition the failure to read Miltons poetry as drama and to recognize his depictions of heavens political and social evolution Williams reads Miltons great argument as a rejection of social hierarchy and of patriarchal government that is more attuned to the radical political thought developed by the Levellers during the English Revolution. He traces echoes between Miltons texts and thousands of pages of Leveller writings that advocated for popular rule, extended suffrage, and religious tolerance, arguing that Miltons God is still the unacknowledged ground of popular sovereignty. Williams demonstrates that Miltons Leveller sympathies, expressed in his early prose, conflicted with his official duties for Oliver Cromwells government in the 1650s, but his association with the journalist Marchamont Nedham later freed him to imagine an egalitarian republic. In a work that connects the great epic poet in new ways to the politics of his time and our own, Miltons Leveller God shows how the political landscape of Miltons work fundamentally unsettles ancient hierarchies of soul and body, man and woman, reason and will, and ruler and ruled. Read more Links Table     Title Link Password Size (MB) Thank to Inform Admin 3205009 Book https://rapidgator.net/file/8bc99345c9ac...   0.00 risotor Tags: Leveller Milton Title Link Password Size Reason Dead link New format Related books: David Williams  Full list Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books: Comments New comment:

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