The End of Learning

Milton and Education

By: Thomas Festa

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Hardcover | 20 July 2006 | Edition Number 1

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254 Pages

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This book shows that education constitutes the central metaphor of John Milton''s political as well as his poetic writing. Demonstrating how Milton''s theory of education emerged from his own practices as a reader and teacher, this book analyzes for the first time the relationship between Milton''s own material habits as a reader and his theory of the power of books. Milton''s instincts for pedagogy, and the habits of inculcation everywhere visible in his writings, take on a larger political function in his use of education as a trope for the transmission of intellectual history. The book therefore analyzes Paradise Lost in the complementary contexts of its outright educational claims and more subversive countervailing measures in order to show how Milton dramatizes "the end of learning," which is to say both its objective and its failure. The thesis emphasizes the argumentative resourcefulness of Milton''s efforts to liberate readers from the tyrannical bonds of their political innocence, most immediately in the context of the failure of Cromwell''s regime to establish lasting republican institutions. More philosophically, the book explores the ways in which Milton''s works investigate the humane and intellectual yearning for justice in response to the problem of evil.

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"In The End of Learning: Milton and Education, Thomas Festa offers an impressively learned exploration of the meaning of education as theme, practice, and motive in Milton's poetry and prose!Festa's book represents a critically important contribution to our understanding of Milton's poetry and what it means to historicize poetic education." -- Julian Koslow, Virginia Tech University, Modern Philology

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