TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waddington,Raymond B.
TI  - Looking into providences: designs and trials in Paradise Lost 
SN  - 9781442696068
AV  - PR3562 .W24 2012
U1  - 821/.4 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Toronto, Buffalo
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Milton, John,
KW  - Paradise lost (Milton, John)
KW  - fast
KW  - Providence and government of God in literature
KW  - Providence divine dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POETRY
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic book
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-299) and index; Providence and providences -- Memory and the art of composition -- Satan's Machiavellian enterprise : force and fraud -- Providence working : the son and the adversary -- Possessing Eve : Tobias and Sarah in Eden -- Murder one : blood, soul, and mortalism -- Providential design : the death and conversion of Adam
N2  - "What is the role of providence in Paradise Lost? In Looking into Providences, Raymond B. Waddington provides the first examination of this engaging subject. He explores the variety of implicit organizational structures or designs that govern Paradise Lost, and looks in-depth at the trials, or testing situations, which require interpretation, choice, and action from its characters. Waddington situates the poem within the context of providentialism's centrality to seventeenth-century thought and life, arguing that Milton's own conception of providence was deeply influenced by the theology of Jacob Arminius. Using Milton's Arminian conception of free will, he then looks at the providential trials experienced by angels and humans. Finally, the work explores the ways in which providentialism infiltrates various kinds of discourse, ranging from military to medical, and from political to philosophical."--Jacket
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