Milton and The Restoration
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Despite the fact that Milton’s Paradise Lost was published in the Restoration, the epic has been often considered as a literary work representing English civil war literature. The conventional reading of Milton’s epic as a legacy of English civil war and its religious and political conflicts tends to overlook the dialogic and oppositional voice in the poem that Milton, both covertly and openly, used to challenge the moral and social status of King Charles II and his court in the early Restoration. Inspired with the revisionist views supported by the literary historians, such as N. H. Keeble and Jonathan Scott, this paper suggests an alternative way of reading Paradise Lost as a literary piece perfectly in tune with the Restoration as an age riddled with diverse conflicts and tensions. In the first half, the paper surveys the popular understanding of the Restoration Milton to reveal how it serves to support and, in turn, is supported by the conventional historiography of the Restoration. The latter half of the paper revisits a couple of places in Paradise Lost in order to illustrate how Milton positions himself in opposition to King Charles II and his court followers, especially through the critical engagement of gluttony and drunkenness.
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Despite the fact that Milton’s Paradise Lost was published in the Restoration, the epic has been often considered as a literary work representing English civil war literature. The conventional reading of Milton’s epic as a legacy of English civil war and its religious and political conflicts tends to overlook the dialogic and oppositional voice in the poem that Milton, both covertly and openly, used to challenge the moral and social status of King Charles II and his court in the early Restoration. Inspired with the revisionist views supported by the literary historians, such as N. H. Keeble and Jonathan Scott, this paper suggests an alternative way of reading Paradise Lost as a literary piece perfectly in tune with the Restoration as an age riddled with diverse conflicts and tensions. In the first half, the paper surveys the popular understanding of the Restoration Milton to reveal how it serves to support and, in turn, is supported by the conventional historiography of the Restoration. The latter half of the paper revisits a couple of places in Paradise Lost in order to illustrate how Milton positions himself in opposition to King Charles II and his court followers, especially through the critical engagement of gluttony and drunkenness.
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