TY - BOOK AU - Loewenstein,David AU - Stevens,Paul TI - Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England SN - 9780802089359 AV - PR3592.P64 U1 - 821/.4 PY - 2008///] CY - Toronto : PB - University of Toronto Press, KW - Nationalism and literature KW - Nationalism in literature KW - Nationalism KW - England KW - History KW - 17th century KW - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays KW - bisacsh N1 - restricted access N2 - Although the poet John Milton was a politically active citizen and polemicist during the English Revolution, little has been written on Milton's concept of nationalism. The first book to examine major aspects of Milton's nationalism in its full complexity and diversity, Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England features fifteen essays by leading international scholars who illuminate the significance of the nation as a powerful imaginative construct in his writings.Informed by a range of critical methods, the essays examine the diverse - sometimes conflicting - and strained expressions of nationhood and national identity in Milton's writings, to address the literary, ethnic, and civic dimensions of his nationalism. These essays enrich our understanding of the imaginative achievements, religious polemics, and political tensions of Milton's poetry and prose, as well as the impact of his writings in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England also illuminates the formation of early-modern nationalism, as well as the complexities of seventeenth-century English politics and religion UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442687943 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442687943/original ER -