Product Description: Sauer investigates the texts' discursive practices and the politics of their orchestration of voice exploring the ways in which Milton's multivocal poems interrogated dominant structures of authority in the seventeenth century and constructed in their place a community of voices characterized by dissonances...read more

Product Description: This book examines the ambiguities inherent in the concept of the agon as a motivating, conflictual force behind creative and social expression. The notion of agonistics extends far beyond the literary fame lent it by Harold Bloom to embrace all aspects of culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Large 8vo. vi (ii), 376 pp, Introduction by Balachandra Rajan and Elizabeth Sauer, I. Contexts: 1. Dominion as Domesticity: Milton's Imperial God and the Experience of History by Janel Mueller; 2. The "Lordly Eye": Milton and the Strategic Geography of Empire by Bruce McLeod; 3...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Filling a major gap in historical, literary, and post-colonial scholarship, Imperialisms examines the identity statements of the world's major imperialisms in multiple theatres of competition over the course of four centuries. Filling a major gap in historical, literary, and post-colonial scholarship, Imperialisms examines early identity statements and nuances of dominance of the world's major imperialisms in various theatres of competition...read more

Product Description: The New Milton Criticism seeks to emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previous Milton scholarship. Contributors to the volume move Milton's open-ended poetics to the center of Milton studies by showing how analyzing irresolvable questions - religious, philosophical and literary critical - transforms interpretation and enriches appreciation of his work...read more