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Milton and the spiritual reader : reading and religion in seventeenth-century England /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ainsworth, David, 1973-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2008.
Series:Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Milton, John, > 1608-1674 > Religion.
Books and reading > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Christianity and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Authors and readers > England > History > 17th century.
Reader-response criticism.
Online Access:Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • "Thou art sufficient to judge aright" : spiritual reading in Areopagitica
  • Spiritual reading in Milton's Eikonoklastes
  • Godly reading in Milton's De doctrina Christiana
  • "There plant eyes" : spiritual interpretation and reading in Paradise lost
  • The reader within : spiritual interpretation in Paradise regained
  • Baxter, Fox, Winstanley, and Miltonic spiritual reading.