Background
Shawcross, John Thomas was born on February 10, 1924 in Hillside, New Jersey, United States. Son of Ernest Edward and Lillian Anderson (Kuncken) Shawcross.
(This study looks at two opposite problems that face liter...)
This study looks at two opposite problems that face literary criticism. Scholarship of the past has frequently been iterated in the present without analyzing or corroborating interpretations or supposed "facts." Scholarship of the present may, therefore, rest on an unacceptable or erroneous basis. On the other hand, scholarship of the past has often been unknown in the present or just ignored, even though present-day criticism may be enhanced or developed or achieve greater cogency by knowledge of past critical evidence. Such matters are pursued here as they impinge in certain areas of the life and work of John Milton.
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The facts of John Milton's life are well documented, but what of the person Milton―the man whose poetic and prose works have been deeply influential and are still the subject of opposing readings? John Shawcross's "different" biography depicts the man against a psychological backdrop that brings into relief who he was―in his works and from his works. While the theories of Freud, Lacan, Kohut, and others underlie this pursuit of Milton's "self," Jung and some of his followers provide the basic understanding by which Shawcross places Milton in the panorama of history. His explorations of the psychological underpinnings of Milton's decision to become a poet, of the homoerotic dimensions of his personality, and of his relationships with father and mother demonstrate the extent to which psychobiography proves itself invaluable as a means to appreciate this complex writer and his complex writings. This biography combines the traditional chronological narrative with a technique akin to that of fiction, "a mixture of times and a triggering of remembrances from various time frames without time differentiations." Such an approach offers a view of Milton "not only in being but in process of being." Shawcross's examination of two current concerns, gender attitudes and political ideologies, ranges Milton's work against the self he exhibits. Specialists and nonspecialists alike will find in this magisterial biography a wealth of new insight into one of the greatest of English poets.
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Shawcross, John Thomas was born on February 10, 1924 in Hillside, New Jersey, United States. Son of Ernest Edward and Lillian Anderson (Kuncken) Shawcross.
AM, New York University, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1958. Doctor of Letters, Montclair State University, 1975.
Doctor of Letters, St. Bonaventure University, 1995.
Professor English Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1963-1967. Professor English University Wisconsin, Madison, 1967-1970, City University of New York, 1970-1979, University Kentucky, Lexington, 1979—1994, emeritus professor, since 1979.
(The facts of John Milton's life are well documented, but ...)
(This study looks at two opposite problems that face liter...)
Member Development John Milton's Thought: Law, Government, Religion, 2008. Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Navy, 1942-1946.