Using Hannah Arendtas account of the Greek polis to explain Miltonas fascination with the idea of public speech, this book reveals what is distinctive about his conception of a godly, republican oratory and poetics. Setting Miltonas poetry and prose in the context of Civil War polemic; classical political theory and its early modern reinterpretations; and Renaissance writing on rhetoric and poetic language, the volume culminates in an Arendtian reading of his aGreeka drama Samson Agonistes.... church vestments and hangings and the garments of the wealthy was provided by both male and female practitioners of ... when embroidery functioned as a branch of domestic discipline, some observed approvingly that having mothers andanbsp;...
Title | : | Milton and the Politics of Public Speech |
Author | : | Dr Helen Lynch |
Publisher | : | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. - 2015-01-28 |
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