Milton and romance: vernacular romance and chivalric traditions in Paradise Lost

The thesis examines Milton's strategic use of romance in Paradise Lost, arguing that such a handling of romance is a provocative realignment of its values according to the poet’s Christian focus. The thesis argues that Milton's use of romance is not simply the importation of a tradition into the poem; it entails a backward judgement on that tradition, defining its idealising tendencies as fundamentally misplaced. The thesis also examines the Caroline uses of romance and chivalry in the 1630s to provide a vision of British unification, and Milton's reaction to this political agenda.

Grantor dc:publisher

University College Cork

Year dc:date.issued

2013

Author dc:creator

• Lahive, Colin

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• King, Andrew
• Knowles, James

• John Milton
• Romance
• Paradise Lost
• Charles I
• Seventeenth-century literature
• Caroline court
• St George
• Satan
• Adam and Eve
• Chivalry
• Renaissance

Statement dc:rights

• © 2013, Colin Lahive

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10468/1184

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:cora.ucc.ie:10468/1184