One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the Age of Milton (Clarendon Paperbacks)($115.00Value)

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Noteworthy for its historical detail and intellectual incisiveness, this study establishes Milton as a monumental but divided figure--torn between radical and conservative mentalities, between eroticism and hatred of the flesh, and between patriarchal and egalitarian conceptions of Paradisal marriage. "Essential reading....His skillful exegeses of Genesis from Augustine through Milton and his contemporaries contains much that is new."-- Studies in English Literature "With great erudition and elegance, Turner locates Milton's epic and his divorce tracts amid the premodern debates over the nature of sexuality, revealing his effort both to synthesize and transform that tradition....An unusual but ultimately successful hybrid of the history of ideas and the new historicism."-- Seventeenth-Century News James Grantham Turner is at University of California, Berkeley. Used Book in Good Condition