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- Title
Milton's Counter-Revision of Romantic Structure in Paradise Regained.
- Authors
Griffiths Jones, Emily
- Abstract
In this essay, Emily Griffiths Jones argues for a reevaluation of the critical commonplace that John Milton abandoned romance after 1694 because of the genre's Royalist overtones. Jones reads Paradise Regained against two postwar Royalist romances, Percy Herbert's The Princess Cloria and Margaret Cavendish's Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, to illuminate Milton's commitment to countering a uniquely Restoration-era phenomenon: the Royalist revision of romance into a secular genre in which the hero struggles to navigate the tides of fate. Paradise Regained embodies a struggle between this revisionary model, which forms the basis of Satan's understanding of heroic romance, and Jesus's equally (or more) romantic Puritan alternative, which rejects Satan's innovative thematics in favor of a complex romance of providence.
- Subjects
PARADISE Regained (Poem : Milton); MILTON, John, 1608-1674; ROMANCE language fiction; NEWCASTLE, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, ca. 1624-1674; KINGS &; rulers &; religion; DEVIL in literature; GOD in literature; JESUS Christ in literature; SEVENTEENTH century; CHRISTIANITY
- Publication
Huntington Library Quarterly, 2013, Vol 76, Issue 1, p59
- ISSN
0018-7895
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1525/hlq.2013.76.1.59