Date of Award
5-2-2018
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
English
First Advisor
Malinda Snow
Second Advisor
Paul Schmidt
Third Advisor
Paul Voss
Abstract
John Milton dedicated his life to forming a path to virtue for men to follow that included education, contemplation, divine illumination, and right reason. Milton promises that his path will lead others to a life of reason and a paradise within. Eighteenth-century women responded to Milton’s formula for virtue and appropriated his path for their own enlightenment. This project examines the way in which three eighteenth-century women, Mary Astell, Lady Mary Chudleigh, and Elizabeth Carter, incorporated Milton’s path to virtue into their writing and into their lives to redefine virtue for women.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/11972920
Recommended Citation
Dodson, Karen, "Performing Valor, Redeeming Virtue." Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2018.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/11972920