The Poetics and Politics of Youth in Milton's England

ISBN: 9781107439986 出版年：2013 页码：266 Blaine Greteman Cambridge University Press

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: childish things Part I. The Growth of Consent and Disciplining of Childhood in Early Modern England: 1. Coming of age on stage: Jonson's epicoene and the politics of childhood in early Stuart England 2. Children, literature, and the problem of consent 3. Contract's children: Thomas Hobbes and the culture of subjection Part II. Milton and the Children of Liberty: 4. 'Perplex't paths': youth and authority in Milton's early work 5. 'Children of reviving libertie': the radical politics of Milton's pedagogy 6. 'Youthful beauty': infancy and adulthood among the angels of Paradise Lost 7. Children of paradise Epilogue: 'children gathering pebbles on the shore'.