Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade

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Cambridge University Press, Aug 28, 1999 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 245 pages
This original study explores Milton's relationship to the seventeenth-century book trade. Critics have often assumed that Milton presided over all stages of his texts' creation, and little has been said about his dependence on other people for producing his works. Examining Milton's changing historical circumstances with special attention to his texts' material production, Stephen B. Dobranski shows in a series of provocative and original case studies that Milton benefited from a collaborative process of writing and publishing, working with amanuenses, acquaintances, printers and publishers in dramatic and surprising ways.

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Contents

Restoring Samson Agonistes
41
The myth of the solitary genius
62
Fair Miltons counterfeit
82
Letters and spirit in Areopagitica
104
The mystery of Milton as licenser
125
The poet John Milton 1673
154
Afterword
179
Notes
185
Index
237
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