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Looking into providences : designs and trials in Paradise Lost / Raymond B. Waddington.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781442696068
  • 1442696060
  • 1442667850
  • 9781442667853
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Looking into providences.DDC classification:
  • 821/.4 23
LOC classification:
  • PR3562 .W24 2012
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)682917

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.

"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

Print version record.

English.