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Engendering the Fall argues that early seventeenth-century women's writing influenced Paradise Lost, while later seventeenth-century texts reworked central aspects of Milton's epic in order to reconfigure the politically resonant gendered hierarchy laid out by the story of the Fall.

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"This is an ambitious book, tackling some central issues in the study of seventeenth-century literature and history, and the first book to bring interpretations of the Fall story by Milton and his female contemporaries, from the Jacobean period to the end of the century, into a sustained dialogue." * David Norbrook, University of Oxford *
"Engendering the Fall enriches our view of Milton, of women writers, and of the literature of gender and statecraft." * TLS *

Engendering the Fall

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      Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
      Published 25 June 2008
      ISBN-13 9780812240863
      978-0812240863
      ISBN-10 0812240863
      Also in:
      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Engendering the Fall argues that early seventeenth-century women's writing influenced Paradise Lost, while later seventeenth-century texts reworked central aspects of Milton's epic in order to reconfigure the politically resonant gendered hierarchy laid out by the story of the Fall.

      Trade Review
      "This is an ambitious book, tackling some central issues in the study of seventeenth-century literature and history, and the first book to bring interpretations of the Fall story by Milton and his female contemporaries, from the Jacobean period to the end of the century, into a sustained dialogue." * David Norbrook, University of Oxford *
      "Engendering the Fall enriches our view of Milton, of women writers, and of the literature of gender and statecraft." * TLS *

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