Milton Now: Alternative Approaches and Contexts

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-25
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
“Shipwreck is everywhere”: Lycidas and the Problems of the Secular....Pages 29-50
“What dost thou in this world?”....Pages 51-68
Milton’s Capitalist Son of God? Temporality and Divine Order in De doctrina Christiana....Pages 69-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Sufficient and Free: The Poetry of Paradise Lost....Pages 83-108
As Jesus Tends to Divinity in Paradise Regained: Mathematical Limits and the Arian Son....Pages 109-128
Uncouth Milton....Pages 129-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
The Liberty of the Subject and the “Pris’ner Samson”....Pages 151-174
What Do Men Want? Satan, the Rake, and Masculine Desire....Pages 175-194
Shades of Representation: Lucy Hutchinson’s Ghost and the Politics of the Representative....Pages 195-214
Equiano, Satanism, and Slavery....Pages 215-245
When Milton Was in Vogue: Cross-Dressing Miltonic Presence and William Craft’s Slave Narrative....Pages 247-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-284