TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sauer,Elizabeth
TI  - Milton, toleration, and nationhood
AV  - PR3592.P64 S28 2014
U1  - 821/.4 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Milton, John,
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - England
KW  - Nationalism in literature
KW  - Nationalism and literature
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1603-1714
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Note on editions; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'Temple-worke': Milton's Literary ecclesiology; 2. Reduction: civilizing conquests in Ireland; 3. Natural law: Milton's post-revolutionary Defences of England; 4. Disestablishment: divorce of church and state; 5. Geography: spatial poetics; 6. Exogamy: 'entercourse' with philistines; Epilogue
N2  - "John Milton lived at a time when English nationalism became entangled with principles and policies of cultural, religious, and ethnic tolerance. Combining political theory with close readings of key texts, this study examines how Milton's polemical and imaginative prose intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood. Through detailed case studies of Milton's works, Elizabeth Sauer charts the fluctuating narrative of Milton's literary engagements in relation to social, political, and philosophical themes such as ecclesiology, exclusionism, Irish alterity, natural law, disestablishment, geography, and intermarriage. In so doing, Sauer shows the extent to which nationhood and toleration can be subjected to literary and historicist inquiry. Her study makes a salient contribution to Milton studies and to scholarship on Early Modern literature and the development of the early nation-state"--
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ER  -