The Masculinities of John Milton : Cultures and Constructs of Manhood in the Major Works

Hodgson, Elizabeth

Cambridge University Press（2025/03発売）

Cambridge University Press（2025/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 229 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009223591
• DDC分類 821.4

Full Description

The Masculinites of John Milton is the first published monograph on Milton's men. Examining how Milton's fantasies of manly authority are framed in his major works, this study exposes the gaps between Milton's pleas for liberty and his assumptions that White men like himself should rule his culture. From schoolboys teaching each other how to traffic in young women in the Ludlow Masque, to his treatises on divorce that make the wife-less husband the best possible citizen, and to the later epics, in which Milton wrestles with male small talk and the ladders of masculine social power, his verse and prose draw from and amplify his culture's claims about manliness in education, warfare, friendship, citizenship, and conversation. This revolutionary poet's most famous writings reveal how ambivalently manhood is constructed to serve itself in early modern England.

Contents

Introduction; 1. Peer review: the Ludlow Masque; 2: Nearly headless husbands: the divorce tracts; 3: Chatting up: Paradise Lost; 4: True warfaring Christian: Aereopagitica & Paradise Regained; 5: Lean on me: Samson Agonistes; Postlude: pity the tale of Milton.