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The Arms of the Family
The Significance of John Milton's Relatives and Associates
Unique in its methodology, The Arms of the Family is required reading not only for students of Milton but also for students of biography in general. Entire chapters dedicated to Milton's brother Christopher, his brother-in-law Thomas Agar, and his nephews Edward and John Phillips, illuminate the domestic forces that helped shape Milton's point of view. The final chapters reconsider Milton's political and sociological ideology in the light of these domestic forces and in the religious context of his three major poetic works: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain'd, and Samson Agonistes. The Arms of the Family is a seminal work by a preeminent Miltonist, marking a major advance in Milton studies and serving as a model for those engaged in family history, social history, and the early modern period.
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"Brings to light a whole new body of knowledge concerning Milton's family and serves as a corrective to the biographical and literary misconceptions that have been uncritically taken for granted during our own time and earlier . . . . A crucial statement not only about Milton and his 'extended family' but about the social and political world that he and his family occupied. A truly important and engaging work, this is a book that will be essential reading for students of Milton, as well as students of biography in general."—Michael Lieb, University of Illinois
"Much of this material is inherently very fascinating, and it undermines the familiar accounts of Milton as straightforwardly the radical product of a radical milieu."—Milton Quarterly
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Other Titles by John T. Shawcross
John Milton
With Mortal Voice
Approaches to Teaching Milton's Paradise Lost, second edition
Other Titles in BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
Becoming T. S. Eliot
William Faulkner
William Golding