Milton and the ends of time /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Description:	x, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Milton, John, -- 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation. Milton, John, -- 1608-1674 End of the world in literature. Apocalypse in literature. Millennialism in literature. Apocalypse in literature. Apocalyptic literature. End of the world in literature. Millennialism in literature. Time in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4900966

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Other authors / contributors:	Cummins, Juliet.
ISBN:	0521816653 (hbk.) : £40.00
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: "Those thoughts that wander through eternity" / Juliet Cummins
1. Milton and the millennium / Barbara K. Lewalski
2. Mede, Milton, and More: Christ's College millenarians / Sarah Hutton
3. Milton and millenarianism: from the Nativity Ode to Paradise Regained / Stella P. Revard
4. Astronomical signs in Paradise Lost: Milton, Ophiucus, and the millennial debate / Malabika Sarkar
5. The millennial moment: Milton vs. "Milton" / William B. Hunter
6. Confusion: the apocalypse, the millennium / John T. Shawcross
7. John Martin's apocalyptic illustrations to Paradise Lost / Beverley Sherry
8. The enclosed garden and the apocalypse: immanent versus transcendent time in Milton and Marvell / Catherine Gimelli Martin
9. Matter and apocalyptic transformations in Paradise Lost / Juliet Cummins
10. "New Heav'ns, new Earth": apocalypse and the loss of sacramentality in the postlapsarian Books of Paradise Lost / Claude N. Slulting, Jr.
11. The apocalypse in Paradise Regained / Ken Simpson
12. Inspiration and melancholy in Samson Agonistes / Karen L. Edwards
Afterword: "The time is come" / David Loewenstein.

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