Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum [Hardcover]

Donald R. Dickson (Editor), Holly Faith Nelson (Editor), Alan Rudrum (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2004

This collection examines intertextual intersections in the works of Henry Vaughan and John Milton and considers their aesthetic, philosophical, or political implications. The theoretical pluralism of the volume reveals the variety and complexity of textual relations in the words of these early modern authors. Some of the essays focus on the author's conscious creation of intertext, others explore the reader's negotiation of books within books, while still others examine the linguistic effect of textual intersections. The essays not only consider material borrowing, but also explore the absorption of concepts or formal structures from antecedent texts. The volume not only adds to the debate on Milton's iteration, duplication, and renovation of precursor texts, but represents the first collection of original essays on the poetry and prose of Henry Vaughan. Essays are authored by experts in the field.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Donald Dickson is Professor of English at Texas A&M University.

Holly Faith Nelson is Assistant Professor of English as Trinity Western University. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 393 pages
• Publisher: Univ of Delaware Pr (November 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0874138760
• ISBN-13: 978-0874138764
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,028,116 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Holly Faith Nelson is an associate professor of English and co-director of the Gender Studies Institute at Trinity Western University. She has co-edited The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose (Broadview Press), Eikon Basilike with Selections from Eikonoklastes (Broadview Press), Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum (University of Delaware Press), James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace: Scottish Romanticism and the Working Class Author (Ashgate Publishing) and Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory (forthcoming Wilfrid Laurier University Press). Her articles have appeared in journals such as Studies in English Literature, Studies in Philology, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, English Language Notes, Scintilla, Studies in Hogg and His World, and The Cowper and Newton Bulletin. She is the co-founder and co-editor of Digital Defoe, an online, peer-reviewed, multi-media scholarly journal (http://english.illinoisstate.edu/digitaldefoe/).