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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... into early modern conceptualizations of both hope and place , which are very different from our own . To discover the very old ground of hope , we must remember Quentin Skinner's injunction to read literature in its own cultural context.
... into early modern conceptualizations of both hope and place , which are very different from our own . To discover the very old ground of hope , we must remember Quentin Skinner's injunction to read literature in its own cultural context.
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... cultural context . In the pages to follow , this chapter of introduction will address the etymological , biblical , artistic , legal , and cultural presentations of hope and place to demonstrate their crucial and explicit connection ...
... cultural context . In the pages to follow , this chapter of introduction will address the etymological , biblical , artistic , legal , and cultural presentations of hope and place to demonstrate their crucial and explicit connection ...
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... cultural identity, yet even more basically, land provides life-sustaining food and water. There is no life, or even hope for life, without land and what it provides. Thus, obedience to God had everything to do with stewardship of the ...
... cultural identity, yet even more basically, land provides life-sustaining food and water. There is no life, or even hope for life, without land and what it provides. Thus, obedience to God had everything to do with stewardship of the ...
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... cultural concepts for a diverse and wide - ranging audience . These texts offer visual evidence of the common cultural sense of hope's relation to land . The standard emblems of hope the anchor , spade , and plough - serve also as ...
... cultural concepts for a diverse and wide - ranging audience . These texts offer visual evidence of the common cultural sense of hope's relation to land . The standard emblems of hope the anchor , spade , and plough - serve also as ...
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... cultural tradition that associated place with hope , Milton does not , significantly , allegorize the relationship between hope and despair even though stock figures for that relationship were available to him . The classical ...
... cultural tradition that associated place with hope , Milton does not , significantly , allegorize the relationship between hope and despair even though stock figures for that relationship were available to him . The classical ...
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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