Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century

Awards:   Winner of Winner, Milton Society The James Holly Hanford Book Award.
Author:   Thomas Matthew Vozar (Excellence Strategy Postdoctoral Fellow, Excellence Strategy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Hamburg)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198875949


Pages:   226
Publication Date:   14 December 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century


Awards

  • Winner of Winner, Milton Society The James Holly Hanford Book Award.

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Author:   Thomas Matthew Vozar (Excellence Strategy Postdoctoral Fellow, Excellence Strategy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Hamburg)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.518kg
ISBN:  

9780198875949


ISBN 10:   0198875940
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   14 December 2023
Audience:   Adult education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Abbreviations and References Figures and Tables Introduction 1: The Sublime from Antiquity to the Renaissance 2: Milton and the ""Stile of Lofty"" 3: Sublime Physics in Paradise Lost 4: Milton and the Theological Sublime Conclusion Bibliographical Appendix: Longinus in English Private Libraries to 1674 Textual Appendix: The Lansdowne Longinus Works Cited Index"

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Let me take stock of the Miltonic topics that Vozar's work induced me to reassess: politics, cosmology, genre, religion. All this along with an edifying contribution to the intellectual history of the Longinian sublime and the enjoyable facticity of important archival and bibliographical findings. If Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century is not a big book, it is nevertheless a grand one. * David Currell, Translation and Literature 33 * If Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century is not a big book, it is nevertheless a grand one. * David Currell, Translation and Literature * A must for advanced collections supporting teaching in humanism. * Choice *


Let me take stock of the Miltonic topics that Vozar's work induced me to reassess: politics, cosmology, genre, religion. All this along with an edifying contribution to the intellectual history of the Longinian sublime and the enjoyable facticity of important archival and bibliographical findings. If Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century is not a big book, it is nevertheless a grand one. * David Currell, Translation and Literature 33 *


Author Information

Thomas Matthew Vozar is an Excellence Strategy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Hamburg. He studied Classics at Oberlin College and the University of Pennsylvania before taking his PhD in English at the University of Exeter, where he remains an Honorary Fellow. He has published widely on early modern literary and intellectual culture.

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