In this first book devoted to Milton's engagement with Ireland, Lee Morrissey takes an archipelagic approach to his subject. The study focuses on the period before the Cromwellian Conquest, explaining Milton's emergence as a public figure because of Ireland and tracing the paradoxical resonances of Milton's republicanism in Ireland to this day. Informed by developments in Irish history but foregrounding a lucid discussion of Milton's governmental prose works, Morrissey explores the tension...

Upending conventional scholarship on Milton and modernity, Lee Morrissey recasts Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes as narrating three alternative responses to a world in upheaval: adjustment, avoidance and antagonism. Through incisive engagement with narrative, form, and genre, Morrissey shows how each work, considered specifically as a fiction, grapples with the vicissitudes of a modern world characterised more by paradoxes, ambiguities, subversions and shifting tempo...

The essays in this volume portray the debates concerning freedom of speech in eighteenth-century France and Britain aswell as in Austria, Denmark, Russia, and Spain and its American territories. Representing the views of both moderate and radicaleighteenth-century thinkers, these essays by eminent scholars discover that twenty-fi rst-century controversies regarding the extent of permissible speech have their origins in the eighteenth century. The economic integration of Europ...

About the BookBesides the mysterious death of their parents, twins Garrett and Caitlin believe themselves to be ordinary teenagers. That all changes on their eighteenth birthday when inexplicably they and their three younger sisters are ripped from their home and transported into a world very unlike their own, where witches, pirates, and magical creatures reside…. But the biggest surprise of all is that everyone in this realm seems to know their names! Follow the five children as th...

This book analyzes Eric Voegelin’s scholarly works from the 1950s and early 1960s and examines the ways in which these works are relevant to the twenty-first century political environment. The collection of essays evaluated in this book cover a wide array of topics that were of great curiosity sixty years ago and still relevant in today’s society. The authors in this volume demonstrate that Voegelin’s erudition on topics such as revolutionary change, ideological fervor, industrialization, ...

This book examines key twentieth-century philosophers, theologians, and social scientists who began their careers with commitments to the political left only later to reappraise or reject them. Their reevaluation of their own previous positions reveals not only the change in their own thought but also the societal changes in the culture, economics, and politics to which they were reacting. By exploring the evolution of the political thought of these philosophers, this book draws connection...

The PrincessA Collection of Royal TalesA Chipper Press AnthologyIn The Princess, young royals discover that being a princess is about so much more than wearing a tiara and attending etiquette lessons. Follow fourteen future rulers as they try to come to terms with who they are inside and who others want them to be.A tiny dragon teaches a princess to embrace her inner mage, while a tutor helps another to embrace her inner dragon. One young royal learns an imp...