Free Download Rosamund Paice, "Milton's Loves: From Amity to Caritas in the Paradise Epics "
English | ISBN: 1032390212 | 2023 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book is about the multiple loves of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained: sanctioned loves and outlawed loves, sincere loves and false loves, Christian loves, classical loves, humanist loves, and love as emotion. In showing how these loves motivate the most significant actions of the Paradise epics, it reveals Milton to have made creative use of the tensions between philosophical ideals, social conventions, and the rather messier ways in which love emerges in practice. Love, so central to Milton's view of Edenic joy and obedience to God, unsettles earthly and heavenly communities and is the origin of Miltonic transgression.