The new Milton criticism / edited by Peter C. Herman and Elizabeth Sauer.
"The New Milton Criticism seeks to emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previous Milton scholarship. Contributors to the volume move Milton's open-ended poetics to the centre of Milton studies by showing how analys...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: paradigms lost, paradigms found: the new Milton criticism / Peter C. Herman and Elizabeth Sauer
- Part I. Theodicies: 1. Milton's fetters, or, why Eden is better than heaven / Richard Strier; 2. 'Whose fault, whose but his own?': Paradise Lost, contributory negligence, and the problem of cause / Peter C. Herman; 3. The political theology of Milton's heaven / John Rogers; 4. Meanwhile: (un)making time in Paradise Lost / Judith Scherer Herz; 5. The gnostic Milton: salvation and divine similitude in Paradise Regained / Michael Bryson; 6. Discontents with the drama of regeneration / Elizabeth Sauer
- Part II. Critical Receptions: 7. Against fescues and ferulas: personal affront and individual liberty in Milton's early prose / Christopher D'Addario; 8. Disruptive partners: Milton and seventeenth-century women writers / Shannon Miller; 9. Eve and the ironic theodicy of the new Milton criticism / Thomas Festa; 10. Man and thinker: Denis Saurat, and the old new Milton criticism / Jeffrey Shoulson; 11. The poverty of context: Cambridge School history and the new Milton criticism / William Kolbrener; 12. Afterword / Joseph Wittreich.