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Locating John Milton's works in national and international contexts, and applying a variety of approaches from literary to historical, philosophical, and postcolonial, Milton and Toleration offers a wide-ranging exploration of how Milton's visions of tolerance reveal deeper movements in the history of the imagination. Milton is often enlisted in stories about the rise of toleration: his advocacy of open debate in defending press freedoms, his condemnation of persecution, and his criticism of ecclesiastical and political hierarchies have long been read as milestones on the road to toleration. However, there is also an intolerant Milton, whose defence of religious liberty reached only as far as Protestants. This book of sixteen essays by leading scholars analyses tolerance in Milton's poetry and prose, examining the literary means by which tolerance was questioned, observed, and became an object of meditation. Organized in three parts, 'Revising Whig Accounts,' 'Philosophical Engagements,' 'Poetry and Rhetoric,' the contributors, including leading Milton scholars from the USA, Canada, and the UK, address central toleration issues including heresy, violence, imperialism, republicanism, Catholicism, Islam, church community, liberalism, libertinism, natural law, legal theory, and equity. A pan-European perspective is presented through analysis of Milton's engagement with key figures and radical groups. All of Milton's major works are given an airing, including prose and poetry, and the book suggests that Milton's writings are a significant medium through which to explore the making of modern ideas of tolerance.
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目录信息
List of Abbreviations xi
1. Introduction 1
Sharon Achinstein and Elizabeth Sauer
I . REVISING WHIG ACCOUNTS
2. Milton and the European Contexts of Toleration 23
Nigel Smith
3. Toleration and the Specter of Heresy in Milton's England 45
David Loewenstein
4. John Milton, Roger Williams, and the Limits of Toleration 72
Thomas N. Corns
5. Milton, Marvell and Toleration 86
Nicholas von Maltzahn
I I . PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS ENGAGEMENTS
6. Libertinism and Toleration: Milton, Bruno and Aretino 107
James Grantham Turner
7. Milton, Natural Law, and Toleration 126
Jason P. Rosenblatt
8. `A Taken Scandal not a Given': Milton's Equitable Grounds of
Toleration 144
Victoria Silver
9. Milton and Antitrinitarianism 171
Martin Dzelzainis
10. Milton and Catholicism 186
Andrew Hadfield
I I I . POETRY AND RHETORIC
11. Toleration and Nationhood in the 1650s: Sonnet XV and the Case
of Ireland 203
Elizabeth Sauer
12. Toleration in Milton's Epics: A Chimera? 224
Sharon Achinstein
13. Intolerance and the Virtues of Sacred Vehemence 243
Paul Stevens
14. Secularizing Conscience in Milton's Republican Community 268
Lana Cable
15. Milton, Islam and the Ottomans 284
Gerald MacLean
Afterword 299
Ann Hughes
Index 305
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