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Author:

Miller, Shannon.

Title:

Engendering the fall : John Milton and seventeenth-century women writers / Shannon Miller.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

viii, 280 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism--History and criticism
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Milton, John,--1608-1674.--Paradise lost.
Milton, John,--1608-1674--Influence.
Milton, John,--1608-1674--Political and social views.
Fall of man in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women in literature.
Patriarchy in literature.
Women and literature--England--History--17th century.
Women authors, English--17th century--Political and social views.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-268) and index.

Contents:

Serpentine Eve : plotting gender in the seventeenth-century garden -- Gazing, gender, and the construction of governance in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve deus rex judaeorum and Milton's Paradise lost -- Milton among the prophets : inspiration and gendered discourse in the mid-seventeenth century -- Maternity, marriage, and contract : Lucy Hutchinson's response to patriarchal theory in Order and disorder -- The two faces of Eve : gendering knowledge and the "new" science in Paradise lost and Margaret Cavendish's Blazing world -- Rewriting creation : Mary Chudleigh's The song of the three children paraphras'd and Paradise lost -- Spaces and traces of the garden story in Aphra Ben and Mary Astell : mapping female subjectivit(ies) through patriarchialist discourse -- Conclusion : influencing traditions of interpretation.

ISBN:

0812240863 (acid-free paper)
9780812240863 (acid-free paper)

LCCN:

2008298718

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)