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THE ROMANTIC LEGACY OF PARADISE LOST: Reading Against the Grain
by Shears, Jonathon
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0754662535
- ISBN 13
- 9780754662532
- Seller
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Covina, California, United States
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About This Item
Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. ...offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Beginning with a discussion of the role that seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers like Dryden, Johnson and Burke played in formulating the political and spiritual mythology that grew up around Milton, Shears devotes a chapter to each of the major Romantic poets, contextualizing their 'misreadings' of Milton within a range of historical, aesthetic, and theoretical contexts and discourses." Octavo: 221 p. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74459
- Title
- THE ROMANTIC LEGACY OF PARADISE LOST: Reading Against the Grain
- Author
- Shears, Jonathon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0754662535
- ISBN 13
- 9780754662532
- Publisher
- Ashgate
- Place of Publication
- Burlington, Vermont
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- Poetry, English Literature, John Milton, Romanticism, Literary Criticism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Biblio member since 2008
Covina, California
About Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Established in 1981, johnson rare books & archives is located in the heart of downtown Covina, about 20 miles east of Los Angeles. Our shop is currently open by appointment Thursday - Saturday from 11am - 6pm (please call ahead) and houses an inventory of some 30,000 titles, ranging from the general second-hand to the truly antiquarian. For more information, visit our website at www.johnsonrarebooks.com or call 1-626-967-1888.
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- Gilt
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