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050 00 $aPR3562$b.E89 1996
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100 1 $aEvans, J. Martin$q(John Martin),$d1935-2013.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79097479
245 10 $aMilton's imperial epic :$bParadise lost and the discourse of colonialism /$cJ. Martin Evans.
260 $aIthaca, NY :$bCornell University Press,$c1996.
263 $a9605
300 $axi, 194 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 175-188) and index.
520 $aIn the opinion of J. Martin Evans, Paradise Lost is at heart a poem about empire. Written during the crucial first phase of English empire-building in the New World, Milton's epic registers the radically divided attitudes toward the settlement of America that existed in seventeenth-century Protestant England. Evans looks at the relationship between Paradise Lost and the pervasive colonial discourse of Milton's time. Evans bases his analysis on the literature of exploration and colonialism.
520 8 $aThe primary sources on which he draws range from sermons about the New World justifying colonization and exhorting virtue among colonists to promotional pamphlets designed to lure people and investment into the colonies. Evans's research allows him to create a richly textured picture of anxiety and optimism, guilt and moral certitude.
520 8 $a. The central question is whether Milton supported England's colonization or covertly attempted to subvert it. In contrast to those who attribute to Paradise Lost a specific political agenda for the American colonies, Evans maintains that Milton reflects the complexity and ambivalence of attitudes held by English society.
520 8 $aAnalyzing Paradise Lost against this background, Evans offers a new perspective on such fundamental issues as the narrator's shifting stance in the poem, the unique character of Milton's prelapsarian paradise, and the moral and intellectual status of Adam and Eve before and after the Fall. From Satan's arrival in Hell to the expulsion from the garden of Eden, Milton's version of the Genesis myth resonates with the complex thematics of Renaissance colonialism.
600 10 $aMilton, John,$d1608-1674.$tParadise lost.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85227530
600 10 $aMilton, John,$d1608-1674$xPolitical and social views.
650 0 $aEpic poetry, English$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103207
650 0 $aImperialism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004979
650 0 $aColonies in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85028570
852 00 $bglx$hPR3562$i.E89 1996