One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the Age of Milton by James Turner - Critical Review and Analysis



One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the Age of Milton by James turner - Critical Review and Analysis

Introduction

James Turner's book “One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the Age of Milton” is a noteworthy effort. The book is intellectually incisive and has a descriptive historical account. One Flesh is able to establish the character of Milton as a colossal personality. Milton nonetheless is a conflicted person. He is divided between his conservative and radical mentality. As such he is confused with his feelings that abjectly detest the flesh; conversely, he is deeply fascinated with eroticism. Milton is also conflicted in his concepts regarding the egalitarian and patriarchal believes that derived Paradisal marriage.

The aim of this paper is to critically analyze and evaluate James Turner's book titled 'One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the Age of Milton”

Discussion

A book author essentially ponders over two critical questions regarding their work. These questions are, firstly, is the written book able to fulfill its stated assumptions and claims? Secondly, is the published work able to alter, challenge, advance, modify, enhance or to the least be able to contribute in discussions that are related to the main theme of the book? Answering the first question and fulfilling its requisites, is directly suggestive of the written works integrity. Furthermore, qualifying in the second question posited iterates the importance attached for the particular subject area and its integrity. It is in my opinion that the effort of James Turner, in the book 'One Flesh', is not able to fulfill both the question juxtaposed above. As such the integrity of the book, as well as his chosen subject area, is not maintained.

James Grantham Turner's One Flesh is the zenith of relationship shared between eroticism and conservative believes. The author divulges into the foray of sexual politics and its simultaneous existence with conservative regulations in the English society. The book is an effort to participate in the dialogue about sexuality and eroticism. These were subject areas outlined by literary critics in the 1980's. These critics included distinguished literary figures and historians such as Sharon Achinstein, Rachel, Weil, Lois Potter and Susan Wiseman. Turner's publication of One Flesh has also dwelled on the pornography existent in English society in the seventeenth-century. Turner's book, often foreground the opposing democratic dimensions ...