Milton and gender / edited by Catherine Gimelli Martin.
Milton's contempt for women has been accepted as fact by many critics. This book re-evaluates this claim by analysing his major poems, his four divorce tracts, and the responses of female readers. Together, these essays provide a fresh perspective on all aspects of gender in Milton's work.
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Milton's gendered subjects / Catherine Gimelli Martin
- PART I. MASCULINITY, DIVORCE, AND MISOGYNY IN MILTON'S PROSE
- The gender of civic virtue / Gina Hausknecht
- The aesthetics of divorce: "masculinism," idolatry, and poetic authority in Tetrachordon and Paradise Lost / James Grantham Turner
- Dalila, misogyny, and Milton's Christian liberty of divorce / Catherine Gimelli Martin
- PART II. THE GENDERED SUBJECTS OF MILTON'S MAJOR POEMS
- The profession of virginity in A maske presented at Ludlow Castle / William Shullenberger
- The genders of God and the redemption of the flesh in Paradise lost / Marshall Grossman
- Transported touch: the fruit of marriage in Paradise lost / John Rogers
- The experience of defeat: Milton and some female contemporaries / Elizabeth M. Sauer
- Samson and surrogacy / Amy Boesky
- "I was his nursling once": nation, lactation, and the Hebraic in Samson Agonistes / Rachel Trubowitz
- "The Jewish Question" and "The woman question" in Samson Agonistes: gender, religion, and nation / Achsah Guibbory
- PART III. GENDERED SUBJECTIVITY IN MILTON'S LITERARY HISTORY
- George Elliot as a "Miltonist": marriage and Milton in Middlemarch / Dayton Haskin
- Saying it with flowers: Jane Giraud's ecofeminist Paradise Lost (1846) / Wendy Furman-Adams, Virginia James Tufte
- Woolf's allusion to Comus in The voyage out / Lisa Low.