Milton among the Puritans: The Case for Historical Revisionism
January 4, 2011
Catherine Martin writes:
A new and potentially groundbreaking study questioning Milton’s identity as a religious Puritan is now available from Ashgate Press (Aldershot, 2010). In Milton among the Puritans: The Case for Historical Revisionism, Catherine Gimelli Martin shows that the demise of the “Puritan Revolution” thesis about the English civil wars should cause all serious scholars to reconsider the grounds for labeling the poet a Puritan, a tradition of relatively late duration and highly dubious factuality. In addition to making this case, the book offers chapters on each of Milton’s major poems, including one on Comus, from a more literary and secular perspective than much other work to date. The book has been reviewed and highly recommended Thomas Corns and John Rogers.
