{"product_id":"milton-and-the-climates-of-reading-9780802091055","title":"Milton and the Climates of Reading","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eScholarly criticism of John Milton''s writings has in recent decades been distinguished by a methodological prudence that separates it from other forms of literary scholarship. One critic, however, stands apart from his colleagues and has consistently offered a corrective to this prudence: Balachandra Rajan. In \u003ci\u003eMilton and the Climates of Reading\u003c\/i\u003e, Elizabeth Sauer undertakes the daunting work of bringing together a selection of Rajan''s essays on Milton, some hitherto unpublished, in order to chart trends and changes in Milton scholarship over the last sixty years and to consider future directions in this vital field of inquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection, which is framed by Sauer''s insightful introduction and an eloquent afterword by Joseph Wittreich, demonstrates Rajan''s critical range and his ability to adapt to ''new'' ideas, always reformulating them in his own characteristic and individual manner. \u003ci\u003eMilton and the Climates of Reading\u003c\/i\u003e offers timely statements about the ways \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Note on Editions  Acknowledgments    Introduction: The Art of Criticism by Elizabeth Sauer   * Osiris and Urania  * The Poetics of Heresy   * Surprised by a Strange Language: Defamiliarizing Paradise Lost   * Milton Encompassed   * Banyan Trees and Fig Leaves: Some Thoughts on Milton's India   * The Imperial Temptation  * The Two Creations: Paradise Lost and the Treatise on    Christian Doctrine    * Milton and Camoes: Reinventing the Old Man  * Warfaring and Wayfaring: Milton and the Globalization of Tolerance   Afterword: His More Attentive Mind by Joseph A. Wittreich    Publications by Balachandra Rajan   Works Cited   Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405228581207,"sku":"9780802091055","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780802091055.jpg?v=1730489198","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/milton-and-the-climates-of-reading-9780802091055","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}