Engendering the Fall
Author | : Shannon Miller |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2008-06-25 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780812240863 |
ISBN-13 | : 0812240863 |
Rating | : 4/5 (863 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Engendering the Fall by : Shannon Miller
Download or read book Engendering the Fall written by Shannon Miller and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2008-06-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engendering the Fall argues that early seventeenth-century women's writing influenced Paradise Lost, while later seventeenth-century texts reworked central aspects of Milton's epic in order to reconfigure the politically resonant gendered hierarchy laid out by the story of the Fall.