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A collection of eight essays on the poetry of John Milton, with half the volume devoted to "Paradise Lost". The contributions include Anthony Welch's mapping of the chronology of the epic and Raymond B. Waddington's examination of Milton's account of Abel's death.

Though long overshadowed by "Paradise Lost", "Paradise Regained" has come under intense scrutiny. These essays offer fresh perspectives on and analyses of this spiritual poem, in which Milton dared to challenge the political, religious and aesthetic culture of Restoration England.

A collection of essays of comparative interpretation and analysis of many works by Milton, written between 1969 and 1999. The essays analyze such poems as "Comus" and "Paradise Lost", as well as prose works as diverse as "A Second Defence of the English People" and "De Doctrina Christiana".

This collection of ten biographical essays on Milton offers a revisionist interpretation of how, why and where his multiple presences appear in his writings. Rather than stressing his documented life, the essays probe his interior life by identifying its psychic traces in his writings.

This collection of essays explores the larger contexts that inform the composition, publication, and reception of Milton's major poems, notably "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained".

The journal of the Hebrew Union College, an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present.

Contains eight essays that offer insights into Milton's poems, ranging from "Comus" and "Lycidas", to "Paradise Lost" and "Samson Agonistes". This book also contains an essay that offers a fresh direction for Milton scholarship, examining how he may have influenced Seventh-day Adventism.

Includes nine essays that offer coverage of Milton's works, both poems and prose. This work covers topics such as: Milton's self-identification with his female characters; his ambivalent attitudes toward knowledge and education; and a view of Milton's relationship with Galileo that invokes "The Da Vinci Code".

Includes ten essays that cover a wide range of topics including: the relationship of Milton's Satan to Marlowe's work; the adaptation of several episodes and demonic characters in Book II of "Paradise Lost" to the saga of "Odysseus"; and, Eve's dream in "Paradise Lost" and the interrelationship of identity, gender relations, and choice.

Between 1870 and 1940, life expectancy in the United States skyrocketed while the percentage of senior citizens age sixty-five and older more than doubled-a phenomenon owed largely to innovations in medicine and public health.

Solomon Bennett Freehof (1892-1990) was one of America's most distinguished, influential, and beloved rabbis. This book analyses Freehof's views on a number of crucial issues that illustrate the evolution of American Reform Judaism.

A collection of essays that bring new insight into Jewish culture as it is intertwined in Jewish, European, Ottoman, and American history.

This volume assembles the work of leading international scholars in a comprehensive history of Russian literary theory and criticism from 1917 to the post-Soviet age.

The first publication of a reclaimed WPA project studying Pittsburgh's black population. The book features articles on civil rights, social class, lifestyle, culture, folklore, and institutions, from colonial times through the 1930s.

Offers Nicholas Rescher's perspectives on many of the foundational concerns of philosophy. He argues that the need to inquire is an evolutionary tool for adapting to a hostile environment and shows how philosophy has developed in an evolutionary fashion,

In republican Colombia, salt became an important source of revenue not just to individuals, but to the state, which levied taxes on it and in some cases controlled and profited from its production. Focusing his study on the town of La Salina, Rosenthal presents a fascinating glimpse into the workings of the early Colombian state, its institutions, and their interactions with local citizens during this formative period.

The journal of the Hebrew Union College, an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present.

A collection of ten essays which emphasize historicism, the predominant critical approach used to explicate Milton's writings. It provides an intertextual analysis of Milton's writings and those of his contemporaries. It also illuminates Milton's biography by focusing on his interaction with his two nephews.