Immortality and the Body in the Age of Milton

Stephen M. Fallon

earliest edition we have, 2018 University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, 2018

Seventeenth-century England teemed with speculation on body and its relation to soul. Descartes's dualist certainty was countered by materialisms, whether mechanist or vitalist. The most important and distinctive literary reflection of this ferment is John Milton's vitalist or animist materialism, which underwrites the cosmic worlds of Paradise Lost. In time of philosophical upheaval and innovation, Milton and an unu...

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Immortality and the Body in the Age of Milton edition · 2018 · Cambridge University Press · 9781108397162
Immortality and the Body in the Age of Milton hardcover · 2018 · Cambridge University Press · 254 pages · 9781108422338
Immortality and the Body in the Age of Milton edition · 2018 · University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations · 9781108381499

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