02103nam a22003378a 4500 CR9781107323599 UkCbUP 20180107143416.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 130117s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781107323599 (ebook) 9781107041943 (hardback) 9781107615199 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda PR3592.P64 S28 2014 821/.4 23 Sauer, Elizabeth, author. Milton, Toleration, and Nationhood / [electronic resource] Elizabeth Sauer. Milton, Toleration, & Nationhood Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (234 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). John Milton lived at a time when English nationalism became entangled with principles and policies of cultural, religious, and ethnic tolerance. Combining political theory with close readings of key texts, this study examines how Milton's polemical and imaginative literature intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood. Through detailed case studies of Milton's works, Elizabeth Sauer charts the fluctuating narrative of Milton's literary engagements in relation to social, political, and philosophical themes such as ecclesiology, exclusionism, Irish alterity, natural law, disestablishment, geography, and intermarriage. In so doing, Sauer shows the extent to which nationhood and toleration can be subjected to literary and historicist inquiry. Her study makes a salient contribution to Milton studies and to scholarship on early modern literature and the development of the early nation-state. Nationalism in literature Print version: 9781107041943 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107323599 Cambridge Books Online 236777 236777