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Bickford, Ian.

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The thief of paradise: Milton and Seventh-day Adventism.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The thief of paradise: Milton and Seventh-day Adventism./
Author:	Bickford, Ian.
Description:	312 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-07, Section: A, page: 2447.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-07A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3409066
ISBN:	9781124060767

The thief of paradise: Milton and Seventh-day Adventism.
Bickford, Ian.

The thief of paradise: Milton and Seventh-day Adventism. - 312 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-07, Section: A, page: 2447.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 2010.

This dissertation has two protagonists. One is John Milton. The other is Ellen Gould White, prophetess of Seventh-day Adventism and among the most overlooked, by ratio to her scope and impact, of American nineteenth-century theological writers. Their relationship, White's to Milton, Milton's to White, is not untroubled. It includes moments of uncertainty, of evasion, of occasional deception, moments when the record of their rapport disappears and threatens not to reappear. Yet the curve of this relationship, because broken, indicates something not only of Milton's surfacing in America but, to adopt a term from Henry James, the "abysses" from which he surfaces---and into which at times he recedes. I will demonstrate that Seventh-day Adventism comprises not only one of the most extensive absorptions of Milton into American religious, political, and literary life, but also one of the most important---which is to say, White's encounter with Milton instantiated more than a garden-variety literary appropriation, but an appropriation with ripples, ripples amplifying to waves. If we are to believe Carlos Martyn's suggestion in the first American book-length biography of Milton that "it may, in some sense, be said that religious and political America sprang from Milton's brain," we must then understand White's prophetic writings to be a crucial platform for the acrobatics of that event. The platform is ever more crucial, moreover, as Adventism continues to expand in membership at an enormous rate and as that expansion acquires an international emphasis: America, having sprung from Milton, then springs a distinctively American version of Milton into a global milieu. I hope to describe why White's Miltonic appropriation matters, hence to open within Milton studies as well as American studies an expansive new field of application and significance for Milton's avowed ambition that "I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die."

ISBN: 9781124060767Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

The thief of paradise: Milton and Seventh-day Adventism.
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