Milton and the Reformation Aesthetics of the Passion
Biographical note
Erin Henriksen, Ph.D. (2002) is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She has published on Milton and the women writers of the English Renaissance.
Readership
Readers interested in Milton, English Renaissance literature, the Reformation, and the intersection between religion and literature.
Reviews
"a persuasive discussion of Milton’s representation of the Passion. Henriksen offers a thoughtful and perceptive
study of Milton’s reconfiguration of traditional notions of the Passion."
Adam Swann, University of Glasgow. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Summer 2011), pp. 684-686.
"Erin Henriksen’s engaging new study is a welcome contribution to the field. [...] I am impressed by the ambition and scope of Henriksen’s study and the dexterity with which she proves how her thesis holds fast across the breadth of Milton’s poetry."
Russell M. Hillier, Providence College. In: Milton Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 3 (2012), pp. 192-196.
study of Milton’s reconfiguration of traditional notions of the Passion."
Adam Swann, University of Glasgow. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Summer 2011), pp. 684-686.
"Erin Henriksen’s engaging new study is a welcome contribution to the field. [...] I am impressed by the ambition and scope of Henriksen’s study and the dexterity with which she proves how her thesis holds fast across the breadth of Milton’s poetry."
Russell M. Hillier, Providence College. In: Milton Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 3 (2012), pp. 192-196.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Milton’s Poetics of Absence and Restoration
1. Strategies for depicting the Son in Christian Art
2. Iconoclasm as an Artistic Strategy
3. The Post-Reformation Passion
4. Milton’s Alternative Passion
5. “No Death!”: Rewriting the Protestant Elegy in Milton’s Early Poems
6. The Art of Omission and Supplement in Paradise Lost
7. Paradise regained and the Art of the Incarnation
8. Rewriting the Christus Patiens Tradition in Samson Agonistes
Epilogue: Broken and Whole
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Milton’s Poetics of Absence and Restoration
1. Strategies for depicting the Son in Christian Art
2. Iconoclasm as an Artistic Strategy
3. The Post-Reformation Passion
4. Milton’s Alternative Passion
5. “No Death!”: Rewriting the Protestant Elegy in Milton’s Early Poems
6. The Art of Omission and Supplement in Paradise Lost
7. Paradise regained and the Art of the Incarnation
8. Rewriting the Christus Patiens Tradition in Samson Agonistes
Epilogue: Broken and Whole
Bibliography
Index
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