How Long to Read Milton and Religious Controversy

How Long Does it Take to Read Milton and Religious Controversy?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 24 minutes to read Milton and Religious Controversy by John N. King

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Religious satire and polemic constitute an elusive presence in Paradise Lost. John N. King shows how Milton's poem takes on new meaning when understood as part of a strategy of protest against ecclesiastical formalism and clericalism. The experience of Adam and Eve before the Fall recalls many Puritan devotional habits. After the Fall, they are prone to 'idolatrous' ritual and ceremony that anticipate the religious 'error' of Milton's own age. Vituperative sermons, broadsides and pamphlets, notably Milton's own tracts, afford a valuable context for recovering the poem's engagement with the violent history of the Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Restoration, while contemporary visual satires help to clarify Miltonic practice. Eighteenth-century critics who attacked breaches of decorum and sublimity in Paradise Lost alternately deplored and ignored a literary and polemical tradition deployed by Milton's contemporaries. This important study, first published in 2000, sheds light on Milton's epic and its literary and religious contexts.

How long is Milton and Religious Controversy?

Milton and Religious Controversy by John N. King is 262 pages long, and a total of 66,024 words.

This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Milton and Religious Controversy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours to read Milton and Religious Controversy aloud.

What Reading Level is Milton and Religious Controversy?

Milton and Religious Controversy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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