- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Note on the Text and List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
-
1 Milton’s Spots -
2 Critical Mass -
3 ‘A Fine Paradisaical Notion’ -
4 ‘In the Dun Air Sublime’ -
5 Milton’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy -
6 John Dennis, John Locke, and the Sublimation of Revolt -
7 ‘To Secure Our Freedom’ -
8 Milton Modulated for Handel’s Music -
9 John Dryden Meets, Rhymes, and Says Farewell to John Milton -
10 ‘I Still Deny’d, Much Pleas’d to Hear You Sue’ -
11 Angel Bodies to Whig Souls -
12 Yet Once More -
13 Milton’s Pope -
14 The Circling Hours -
15 ‘In Power of Others, Never in My Own’ -
16 Milton and the Restoration Literae -
17 Milton, Newton, and the Implications of Arianism -
18 Friday as Fit Help -
19 Early Modern Marriage in a Secular Age -
20 Haak’s Milton -
21 Miltonic Texts and European Politics, 1674–1682 -
22 Purging the Visual Nerve -
23 Some Thoughts on Periodization -
24 Milton, the Long Restoration, and Pope’s Iliad -
25 Paradise Lost and English Mock Heroic -
26 Milton and the People -
27 Paradise Lost in the Long Restoration, 1660–1742 -
28 Raphael’s Condescension -
29 ‘His Ears Now Were Eyes to Him’ - Bibliography
- Index
Early Modern Marriage in a Secular Age
Early Modern Marriage in a Secular Age
Beyond the Sexual Contract
- Chapter:
- (p.363) 19 Early Modern Marriage in a Secular Age
- Source:
- Milton in the Long Restoration
- Author(s):
Sharon Achinstein
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The chapter observes that although there was no significant divorce legislation in England between the Reformation and 1857, nonetheless the topic of divorce was often discussed during the period of the Long Restoration. John Milton’s writings on divorce are a key lens through which to observe the changing views of the goals of marriage, the family, and relations between familial, civil, and religious institutions in the period. The chapter shows how John Locke, Daniel Defoe, and Samuel Pufendorf responded to Milton’s representations of marriage and divorce in Paradise Lost and the Divorce Tracts. Exploring their various views about affective relationships, and political, religious, and economic notions of the family, the chapter challenges the critical alignment of political contract with marriage contract, and the presumption of secularism in the story of the sexual contract in the construction of the Early Modern secular state.
Keywords: marriage history in England, sexual contract, John Milton, Defoe, John Locke, divorce history in England
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Note on the Text and List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
-
1 Milton’s Spots -
2 Critical Mass -
3 ‘A Fine Paradisaical Notion’ -
4 ‘In the Dun Air Sublime’ -
5 Milton’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy -
6 John Dennis, John Locke, and the Sublimation of Revolt -
7 ‘To Secure Our Freedom’ -
8 Milton Modulated for Handel’s Music -
9 John Dryden Meets, Rhymes, and Says Farewell to John Milton -
10 ‘I Still Deny’d, Much Pleas’d to Hear You Sue’ -
11 Angel Bodies to Whig Souls -
12 Yet Once More -
13 Milton’s Pope -
14 The Circling Hours -
15 ‘In Power of Others, Never in My Own’ -
16 Milton and the Restoration Literae -
17 Milton, Newton, and the Implications of Arianism -
18 Friday as Fit Help -
19 Early Modern Marriage in a Secular Age -
20 Haak’s Milton -
21 Miltonic Texts and European Politics, 1674–1682 -
22 Purging the Visual Nerve -
23 Some Thoughts on Periodization -
24 Milton, the Long Restoration, and Pope’s Iliad -
25 Paradise Lost and English Mock Heroic -
26 Milton and the People -
27 Paradise Lost in the Long Restoration, 1660–1742 -
28 Raphael’s Condescension -
29 ‘His Ears Now Were Eyes to Him’ - Bibliography
- Index
