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Milton's Angels: The Early Modern Imagination

弥尔顿的天使：早期现代想象力

基本信息

批准号：
AH/F004087/1
负责人：
Joad Raymond
金额：
$ 3.98万
依托单位：
University of East Anglia
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2008
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2008 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF004087%2F1
关键词：
Milton Angels Early Modern Imagination

项目摘要

Paradise Lost is the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language. Its chronological, geographical and emotional ambition is almost without bounds. It begins before creation, describes the history of the universe, and concludes with the end of time. It extends from Heaven through created space and the earth to Hell and the void beyond. It is the grandest poem in the Renaissance epic tradition, and puts an end to that tradition. Yet its focus is domestic, turning on a single human relationship: it tells a story of love, intimacy, betrayal, heartbreak and wounded reconciliation.Adam and Eve's actions and feelings seem heroic because they are situated and given significance within the cosmos in a way that no other poem, pagan or Christian, has achieved. Milton accomplished this by introducing a machinery both expansive and theologically daring. This machinery is angelic. Angels are fundamental to the execution of Milton's design in Paradise Lost. They are necessary because without them the story does not work. He uses angels to narrate swathes of history, to interact with, protect, and converse with humans, to fight with rebel angels. He uses them to make mistakes, to sin, to argue, to bind together the celestial narratives with the terrestrial. The story of Paradise Lost is told by and of angels; it relies upon their conflicts, communications, and miscommunications. They are the creatures of God but also the creatures of Milton's narrative. Milton makes the Fall morally ponderous, tragic, and part of the fabric of the universe by surrounding it with the actions and interactions of angels. Take away the angels from Paradise Lost, and you would be left with a linear, expository narrative. The poem is concerned with and focussed upon humankind, but angels are central to its design. In terms of its imaginative drive and aesthetic architecture, Paradise Lost is a poem about angels. Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination will do three things. It will offer a new account of Paradise Lost, one that will radically challenge our understanding of the poem. Angels are central to Milton's poem, and recognising this changes the way we read it. Secondly, it will provide an original account of beliefs in and writings about angels in early-modern England. There is at present no such survey: mine will be based on extensive research into an array of sources: scholastic theology, sixteenth and seventeenth century systematic theology, treatises on the occult, demons and the natural world, natural philosophical writings, sermons, spiritual autobiographies, pamphlets, manuscripts of ritual magic, and private diaries that record conversations with angels. In this survey I will look at the content of these works, but also how they reflect widespread belief in angels, and the pervasiveness in various modes of writing of the debates surrounding angels and angelic agency. Thirdly, it will show how beliefs and knowledge are closely entwined with the imaginative in early-modern writing. In reading early-modern texts we need to recover the interchange and play between belief and imagination, the literary and the doctrinal, between reason and the sublime.During the extended period of research leave I will research and write two of the central chapters for this book: the two chapters that involve most the most extensive and diverse sources. I will also write the introduction and conclusion; the book will then be submitted for publication.

《失乐园》是英语中最雄辩、最大胆、最博学、最崇高的诗歌。它在时间、地理和情感上的野心几乎是无限的。它开始于创造之前，描述宇宙的历史，结束于时间的终结。它从天堂延伸到创造的空间和地球到地狱和更远的虚空。它是文艺复兴时期史诗传统中最伟大的一首诗，并结束了这一传统。然而，它的焦点是家庭，转向一个单一的人类关系：它讲述了一个关于爱，亲密，背叛，心碎和受伤的和解的故事。亚当和夏娃的行为和感情看起来很英雄，因为他们在宇宙中的位置和意义是其他诗歌，异教徒或基督徒所没有的。米尔顿通过引入一种既广阔又大胆的神学机制来实现这一点。这个机器是天使。天使是执行米尔顿在《失乐园》中的设计的基础。它们是必要的，因为没有它们，故事就无法运作。他用天使来讲述历史，与人类互动，保护人类，与人类匡威，与反叛天使战斗。他用它们来犯错误，犯罪，争论，把天上的故事和地上的故事结合在一起。《失乐园》的故事是由天使讲述的，也是关于天使的;它依赖于他们的冲突、沟通和错误的沟通。他们是上帝的创造物，但也是米尔顿叙事中的创造物。米尔顿通过天使的行动和互动，使堕落成为道德上的傲慢，悲剧，和宇宙结构的一部分。把《失乐园》中的天使去掉，你就会得到一个线性的、短暂的叙述。这首诗关注并关注人类，但天使是其设计的核心。就其想象力和美学结构而言，《失乐园》是一首关于天使的诗。米尔顿的《天使：早期现代的想象》将做三件事。它将提供一个新的帐户失乐园，一个将从根本上挑战我们的理解这首诗。天使是米尔顿诗歌的中心，认识到这一点会改变我们阅读它的方式。其次，它将提供一个原始的帐户，在信仰和写作有关天使在早期现代英格兰。目前还没有这样的调查：我的调查将基于对一系列资料的广泛研究：经院神学，16和17世纪的系统神学，关于神秘学、恶魔和自然世界的论文，自然哲学著作，布道，精神自传，小册子，仪式魔法的手稿，以及记录与天使对话的私人日记。在这篇综述中，我将考察这些作品的内容，以及它们如何反映了人们对天使的普遍信仰，以及围绕天使和天使代理的辩论在各种写作模式中的普遍性。第三，它将展示信仰和知识是如何与早期现代写作中的想象力紧密相连的。在阅读早期现代文本时，我们需要恢复信仰与想象、文学与教义、理性与崇高之间的交流与互动，在这段时间的研究休假期间，我将研究并撰写本书的两个核心章节：这两个章节涉及最广泛和最多样化的来源。我还将写导言和结论;然后这本书将提交出版。