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Milton: Paradise Lost

2nd Edition

Part of Landmarks of World Literature (New)

Author: David Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Date Published: January 2004
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521539791

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This volume offers an accessible and stimulating introduction to one of the most influential texts of western literature. This guide highlights Milton's imaginative daring as he boldly revises the epic tradition, brilliantly elaborates upon Genesis, and shapes his ambitious narrative in order to retell the story of the Fall. The book considers the heretical dimensions of Paradise Lost and its theology, while situating Milton's great poem in its literary, religious, and political contexts. A concluding chapter addresses the influence of Milton's sublime poem as a source of creative inspiration for later writers, from the Restoration to the Romantics. Finally, the volume offers an extremely useful and updated guide to further reading, which students will find invaluable.
- Updated edition of a widely used and helpful guide to one of the greatest works of world literature - including a fully updated guide to further reading
- This introduction examines the significant after-life of Paradise Lost
- Written by an expert in the field who has taught this text for many years
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Product details
- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: January 2004
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521539791
- length: 158 pages
- dimensions: 203 x 127 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.163kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Chronology
The chronology of events in Paradise Lost
Part I. Paradise Lost in Milton's Career and Age:
1. 'Long choosing, and beginning late'
2. Lycidas
3. Writing in the English Revolution and the Restoration
4. Milton's blindness
5. The Christian Doctrine and Milton's theological heresies
Part II. Interpreting Paradise Lost:
6. 'Say first what cause': Paradise Lost and beginnings
7. 'To raise/That Name': Paradise Lost and epic ambition
8. The voice of the poet
9. Answerable styles
10. Satan: daring ambition and heroic ideology
11. Hell: geographical place and internal state
12. God, providence, and free will
13. Milton's Eden
14. Adam and Eve and human sexuality
15. The material cosmos of Paradise Lost
16. War in Heaven
17. Creation
18. The tragedy of the Fall
19. Postlapsarian history and the inner paradise
Part III. The Literary Afterlife of Paradise Lost:
20. Revisions from the restoration to the romantics.
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David Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin, Madison