Engendering the Fall

Engendering the Fall
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780812240863
ISBN-13 : 0812240863
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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.


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