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Milton, evil and literary history / Claire Colebrook

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Colebrook, Claire
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London ; New York : Continuum, 2008.
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1 online resource (158 pages).
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Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Life, Economy, Evil; 1 Milton's History of Reason and Church Government; 2 Capital Time, Production and Generation; 3 Allegory, Analogy and the Form of the World; 4 Gender and Contrariety; 5 History, Becoming and Reason; Conclusion: Excremental Whiteness; Notes; Works Cited; Index
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Milton, Evil and Literary History addresses the ways in which we read literary history according to quite specific images of growth, development, progression, flourishing and succession.€ Goodness has always been aligned with a life of expansion, creation, production and fruition, while evil is associated with the inert, non-relational, static and stagnant.€ These associations have also underpinned a distinction between good and evil notions of capitalism, where good exchange enables agents to enhance their living potential and is contrasted with the evils of a capitalist system that.
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9781441103628 (electronic bk.)
1441103627 (electronic bk.)
9781441193735
1441193731
9786613202284
6613202282
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-155) and index.
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