Synopses & Reviews
Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-324) and index.
Review
“A welcome intervention in such fields as English studies, rhetoric, liguistics, postcolonial theory, and of western knowledge construction in general, and the publishing practices of academia in particular.”
--Rocky Mountain Review
Synopsis
Milton Studies is published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press as a forum for Milton scholarship and criticism. The journal defines the literary, intellectual, and historical contexts that impacted Milton by studying the work of his contemporaries, seventeenth century political and religious movements, his influence on other writers, and the history of critical response to his work.
Table of Contents
Contextualizing academic writing -- Communities of knowledge construction -- Conventions in knowledge construction -- Textual conventions in conflict -- Publishing requirements and material constraints -- Literacy practices and academic culture -- Poverty and power in knowledge production -- Reform, resistance, reconstruction.