Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, January 1st, 2005
It is the willful disregard of history that is the object of critique in the pages that follow. (Fish, No Such Thing ix)
MODERN scholarship of Milton's Areopagitica is understandably perplexed on some points. The tone of Milton's panegyric on freedom of speech resonates with current sensibilities on a number of levels, serving as an almost primal articulation of the reasons for freedom of speech. But at the same time, Milton's freedom of speech is freedom of speech with one notable exception: Catholics. At this point Milton sounds like the dinner guest whose faux pas lets slip that he is s...
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