Output details
29 - English Language and Literature
University of Leicester
Book title
John Milton: Life, Work and Thought
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Oxford University Press
ISBN of book
978-0-19-928984-4
Year of publication
2008
URL
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Number of additional authors
1
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
This is a 488-page biography that represents a significant scholarly commitment. Some 600 documents (in various languages) in scores of archives in several countries were consulted, about a third of which were previously unknown to researchers. At a conceptual level, the biography reflects the revisionist historiography of seventeenth-century England pioneered by the late Kevin Sharpe, so the history of the period is understood in a wholly new way. The presentation of Milton's youth, and of his Italian journey, constitute radical departures from established orthodoxies, and the historical siting of the poems is in several cases wholly new.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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