Review
"Editors Sharon Achinstein and Elizabeth Sauer have drawn together a timely, important, and remarkably coherent collection of essays.... All in all, this volume offers a trove of meticulous historical research and exemplary literary criticism."--Thomas Fulton, Renaissance Quarterly
"A powerful, scholarly account of Milton's writings about toleration and persecution on religious and other grounds from the antiprelatical tracts to the final great poems."-Milton Quarterly
Book Description
Fifteen leading Milton scholars examine the idea of toleration in Milton's poetry and prose, and address central issues including violence, heresy, church polity, liberalism, libertinism, natural law, equity, imperialism, republicanism, and Milton and his Muslim readers.
From the Publisher
Sharon Achinstein is Reader in Renaissance Literature at Oxford University, and author of Literature and Dissent in Milton's England(2003). Her Milton and the Revolutionary Reader (1994) won the Milton Society of America's James Holly Hanford Prize, and she has edited a special issue of Women's Studies on Literature and Gender in the English Revolution (1994), and published numerous essays on Milton, Dryden, women's writing, and culture and politics in the seventeenth century. She is a consulting editor for the forthcoming Milton Encyclopedia (Yale University Press) and is an editor for Volume VI of The Complete Works of John Milton (under preparation for Oxford University Press).
Elizabeth Sauer is Professor of English at Brock University, Canada where she was also awarded a Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence. She has published on early modern English literature and history, Milton, print culture, women's literary history, and the history of imperialism. Her books include "Paper-contestations" and Textual Communities in England 1640-1675 (2005), Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice in Milton's Epics (1996) and 8 editions/co-editions, including Reading Early Modern Women (2004), winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Best Collaborative Work and Milton and the Imperial Vision (1999), winner of the Milton Society of America Irene Samuel Memorial Award.
About the Author
Sharon Achinstein is Reader in Renaissance Literature at Oxford University, and author of Literature and Dissent in Milton's England(2003). Her Milton and the Revolutionary Reader (1994) won the Milton Society of America's James Holly Hanford Prize, and she has edited a special issue of Women's Studies on Literature and Gender in the English Revolution (1994), and published numerous essays on Milton, Dryden, women's writing, and culture and politics in the seventeenth century. She is a consulting editor for the forthcoming Milton Encyclopedia (Yale University Press) and is an editor for Volume VI of The Complete Works of John Milton (under preparation for Oxford University Press).
Elizabeth Sauer is Professor of English at Brock University, Canada where she was also awarded a Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence. She has published on early modern English literature and history, Milton, print culture, women's literary history, and the history of imperialism. Her books include "Paper-contestations" and Textual Communities in England 1640-1675 (2005), Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice in Milton's Epics (1996) and 8 editions/co-editions, including Reading Early Modern Women (2004), winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Best Collaborative Work and Milton and the Imperial Vision (1999), winner of the Milton Society of America Irene Samuel Memorial Award.
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