Milton and Modernity
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Milton and Modernity

Politics, Masculinity and Paradise Lost

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Milton and Modernity

Politics, Masculinity and Paradise Lost

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This book presents a theoretical and historicized reading of the production of the 'autonomous' subject in Milton's prose and in Paradise Lost. It rejects the current orthodoxy that liberal humanism is just a form of domination, and reads Milton's texts as revolutionary. Although Milton participates in the formation of discourses of sexuality, labour and the nature of reason which come to be normative, neither Milton's texts nor modernity more generally can be understood without also accepting the dynamism inherent in the belief in individual freedom.

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Year
2016
ISBN
9780333985168

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Milton and Modernity
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. List of Abbreviations
  6. Introduction: Milton and Modernity
  7. 1 Born to command and not to obey’: Milton and the Political Force of Liberal Humanism
  8. 2 No respecter of persons’: Individual Merit in Milton’s Heaven
  9. 3 Stronger then Death’: Masculinity and Marriage in Paradise Lost
  10. 4 Labour and Love: the Individual and the Natural World in Paradise Lost
  11. Conclusion: ‘On even ground’ – Adam as Every Man
  12. Notes
  13. Select Bibliography
  14. Index