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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... role in determining individual , national , and international power and liberty . An analysis of the Miltonic conception of hope that did not acknowledge its connection to place would be incomplete and would have to ignore much biblical ...
... role in determining individual , national , and international power and liberty . An analysis of the Miltonic conception of hope that did not acknowledge its connection to place would be incomplete and would have to ignore much biblical ...
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... role of God's deeds in history for many years , more recent scholarship has highlighted the principal role of land : land entitlement , land possession , land loss , landlessness , land violence.14 According to such scholarship ...
... role of God's deeds in history for many years , more recent scholarship has highlighted the principal role of land : land entitlement , land possession , land loss , landlessness , land violence.14 According to such scholarship ...
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... role that land held in the individual's and the nation's vision for the future . With the restoration of Charles II in 1660 , domestic land laws bound to feudal archetypes changed so dramatically that English individuals of any social ...
... role that land held in the individual's and the nation's vision for the future . With the restoration of Charles II in 1660 , domestic land laws bound to feudal archetypes changed so dramatically that English individuals of any social ...
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... role that land played economically and politically during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , landscape paintings became another popular means of expressing and delineating English nationalism , and this genre offers further ...
... role that land played economically and politically during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , landscape paintings became another popular means of expressing and delineating English nationalism , and this genre offers further ...
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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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