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"Matter of glorious trial" : spiritual and material substance in Paradise lost /

This groundbreaking book, the first to examine Milton's thinking about matter and substance throughout his entire poetic career, seeks to alter the prevailing critical view that Milton was a monist-materialist-one who believes that all things are composed of material and all phenomena (includin...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sugimura, N. K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The university years: Milton and seventeenth-century Aristotelianism at Cambridge
  • Milton's metaphysic and linguistic practice in Paradise lost
  • Milton's early poems: the agon between Plato and Aristotle
  • Milton on the soul
  • Milton's angelology: intelligential substance in Paradise lost
  • From angels to the almighty: accommodation and the problem of narrative intelligibility
  • Prime matter, subject of chaos.