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Milton and the ends of time
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- Creator
- Juliet Cummins ... [and others]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003
- Physical Details
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- x, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521816656, 0521816653
- OCLC
- ocm50717810
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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