| Milton''s Peculiar Grace: Self-Representation and Authority Subjects: Milton John 1608–1674 -- Criticism and interpretation; Self in literature; Autobiography in literature; Authority in literature; Despite writing about himself extensively and repeatedly, John Milton, the archetypal Puritan author, resolutely avoids the obligatory Augustinian narrative of sinfulness, conviction of sin, reception of the Word, regeneration of the spirit, and... Stephen M. Fallon is Cavanaugh Professor in the Humanities at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Milton among the Philosophers: Poetry and Materialism in Seventeenth-Century England , also available from Cornell. |