A Table in the Wilderness: The Great Hall Grove and Constructed Authority in Paradise Regained
Abstract:
Paradise Regained parodies the country house poem to distinguish between forests as divine creation and great halls of conspicuous consumption. Using notions of Christian equality, his great-hall grove undermines England’s social hierarchy and resonates in rumbling discontent latent in historical and literary forests.
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