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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Loewenstein, David

Titel

Immortality and the Body in the Age of Milton. John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiv + 244 pp. $99.99

Ist Teil von

• Renaissance Quarterly, 2022-12, Vol.75 (4), p.1442-1444

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Link zum Volltext

• ProQuest

Quelle

Bibliografía de la Literatura Española

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• John Rumrich then offers a fresh account of authorial potency in Milton by considering how his conception of books as conveying an author's lifeblood and soul is inseparable from his vitalist monism. In a chapter that valuably reconsiders Milton the iconoclast in light of Areopagitica's monist theory of the active book, David Harper expands Rumrich's argument by examining Milton's sense of the material potency of books in relation to his iconoclasm. Louisa Hall writes well about Hester Pulter's reimagination of the afterlife in terms of Copernican science; confined to her country house as a result of her pregnancies, Pulter envisions her reembodied soul orbiting among multiple worlds, a perspective that gives Pulter great imaginative freedom.