Engendering the fall : John Milton and seventeenth-century women writers
Engendering the Fall argues that early seventeenth-century women's writing influenced Paradise Lost, while later seventeenth-century texts reworked central aspects of Milton's epic in order to reconfigure the politically resonant gendered hierarchy laid out by the story of the Fall.
Print Book, English, c2008
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa., c2008
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 280 p. ; 24 cm.
9780812240863, 0812240863
1038548408
Serpentine Eve : plotting gender in the seventeenth-century garden
Gazing, gender, and the construction of governance in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve deus rex judaeorum and Milton's Paradise lost
Milton among the prophets : inspiration and gendered discourse in the mid-seventeenth century
Maternity, marriage, and contract : Lucy Hutchinson's response to patriarchal theory in Order and disorder
The two faces of Eve : gendering knowledge and the "new" science in Paradise lost and Margaret Cavendish's Blazing world
Rewriting creation : Mary Chudleigh's The song of the three children paraphras'd and Paradise lost
Spaces and traces of the garden story in Aphra Ben and Mary Astell : mapping female subjectivit(ies) through patriarchialist discourse
Conclusion : influencing traditions of interpretation