Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 146
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Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-8476-8052-8 • Hardback • September 1995 • $158.00 • (£123.00) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
Paul M. Dowling is professor of English at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.
Chapter 1 Introduction: "Historicizing" Milton
Chapter 2 Shrewd Frontispieces: "To the Parliament of England"
Chapter 3 Use (or Abuse) of History
Chapter 4 The Christian Authorities
Chapter 5 The Insufficiency of Licensing
Chapter 6 The Harm of Licensing
Chapter 7 Digression on the "Nation"
Chapter 8 The Peroration: "What is Appropriate for Each"
Chapter 9 Conclusion: "Polite Wisdom"
Chapter 10 Appendix: Events in The Life of John Milton
. . . reopens the question of Milton's orthodoxy by taking a fresh look at what is really going on behind the complex wandering syntax and elusive allusivenes of the great poet's prose.
— Paul A. Cantor, University of Virginia
. . . a pathbreaking interpretation of Milton's Areopagitica . . . It is a fine work of scholarship. It should be of great interest to Milton scholars and to all students of the history of political thought.
— David L. Schaefer, Holy Cross College
. . . [T]the most penetrating and provocative work on Milton's Areopagitica that I've seen . . . Dowling's striking thesis . . . is presented with impressive historical learning and philosophic subtlety . . .
— Harry M. Clor, Kenyon College