Milton's Places of Hope: Spiritual and Political Connections of Hope with LandIn early modern culture and in Milton's poetry and prose, this book argues, the concept of hope is intrinsically connected with place and land. Mary Fenton analyzes how Milton sees hope as bound both to the spiritual and the material, the internal self and the external world. Hope, as Fenton demonstrates, comes from commitment to literal places such as the land, ideological places such as the "nation," and sacred, interior places such as the human soul. Drawing on an array of materials from the seventeenth century, including emblems, legal treatises, political pamphlets, and prayer manuals, Fenton sheds light on Milton's ideas about personal and national identity and where people should place their sense of power and responsibility; Milton's politics and where he thought the English nation was and where it should be heading; and finally, Milton's theology and how individuals relate to God. |
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... Charity, “Reduction,” and Reform Chapter 4: Place, Hope, and Prayer Chapter 5: Our Father, Who Art in Hell: Complicating Hope, Confiscating Prayer Chapter 6: Myself Am Paradise: Hope, Land, and Redemption in Paradise Regain'd Epilogue ...
... Charity, “Reduction,” and Reform Chapter 4: Place, Hope, and Prayer Chapter 5: Our Father, Who Art in Hell: Complicating Hope, Confiscating Prayer Chapter 6: Myself Am Paradise: Hope, Land, and Redemption in Paradise Regain'd Epilogue ...
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... Charity, and Hope. The Vices line the left wall: Foolishness, Inconstancy, Ire, Injustice, Idolatry, Envy, and Despair. The series of Vices culminates in Despair; the series of Virtues in Hope. All figures on each side of the nave lead ...
... Charity, and Hope. The Vices line the left wall: Foolishness, Inconstancy, Ire, Injustice, Idolatry, Envy, and Despair. The series of Vices culminates in Despair; the series of Virtues in Hope. All figures on each side of the nave lead ...
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... charity ) , hope for Milton , and for much of early modern culture , concerns place . Milton therefore locates hope in literal and figurative places where its material value is both spiritual and palpable . Hope comes from creating ...
... charity ) , hope for Milton , and for much of early modern culture , concerns place . Milton therefore locates hope in literal and figurative places where its material value is both spiritual and palpable . Hope comes from creating ...
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... charity are the breastplate ( 1 Thessalonians 5 : 8 ) ; nor does he use other typical early modern emblems of hope as wings or as a rope . None of these serve the purpose of expressing the relationship of hope to land , to commitment to ...
... charity are the breastplate ( 1 Thessalonians 5 : 8 ) ; nor does he use other typical early modern emblems of hope as wings or as a rope . None of these serve the purpose of expressing the relationship of hope to land , to commitment to ...
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... Charity ( which Milton replaces with Chastity ) . Hope is “ hov'ring , ” lingering and suspended , with merely the potential for flight , but girt with the rich and majestic wings that could carry the faithful and chaste toward heaven ...
... Charity ( which Milton replaces with Chastity ) . Hope is “ hov'ring , ” lingering and suspended , with merely the potential for flight , but girt with the rich and majestic wings that could carry the faithful and chaste toward heaven ...
Contents
Hope Land Ownership and the Paradise Within | |
Keeping Irish Hope in its Place Charity Reduction and Reform | |
Place Hope and Prayer | |
Our Father Who Art in Hell Complicating Hope Confiscating Prayer | |
Myself Am Paradise Hope Land and Redemption in Paradise Regaind | |
Index | |
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