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9780271085050 Academic Inspection Copy

Milton and the Parables of Jesus

Self-Representation and the Bible in John Milton's Writings
  • ISBN-13: 9780271085050
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By David V. Urban
  • Price: AUD $75.99
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  • Local release date: 01/11/2019
  • Format: Paperback 328 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Religion & beliefs [HR]
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Examines Milton’s identification with characters in Jesus’s parables. Connects Milton’s engagement with the parables to his self-representation throughout his poetry and prose.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Milton’s Hermeneutic of Parables, Milton’s Parabolic Imagination

Part 1: The Parable of the Talents and the Parable of the Laborers

1. The Talented Mr. Milton: A Parabolic Laborer and His Identity

2. Samson’s Late Call: Parabolic Tension and Resolution in Samson Agonistes

3. Abdiel and the Son: Milton’s Ideal Relationship with the Two Parables in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

Part 2: The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins

4. A “Virgin Wise and Pure”: Parabolic Self-Reference in Sonnet 9

5. The Wise Virgin in Action: The Lady of A Mask

6. Wise Virginity Lost in Paradise Lost

7. Perfect and Recovered Virginity in Paradise Regained and Samsom Agonistes

Part 3: The Parable of the Householder

8. “Out of His Treasury Things New and Old”: The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce and De Doctrina Christiana

9. Milton’s Epic Narrators and the Son and Mary in Paradise Regained

10. Internal and External Scripture in Samson Agonistes

Notes

Index


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