Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xvii
Note on Editions Used xviii
List of Abbreviations xix
Part I The Cultural Context 1
1 Genre 3Barbara K. Lewalski
2 The Classical Literary Tradition 22John K. Hale
3 Milton on the Bible 37Regina M. Schwartz
4 Literary Baroque and Literary Neoclassicism 55Graham Parry
5 Milton and English Poetry 71Achsah Guibbory
6 Milton's English 90Thomas N. Corns
Part II Politics and Religion 107
7 The Legacy of the Late Jacobean Period 109Cedric C. Brown
8 Milton and Puritanism 124N. H. Keeble
9 Radical Heterodoxy and Heresy 141John Rumrich
10 Milton and Ecology 157Diane Kelsey McColley
11 The English and Other Peoples 174Andrew Hadfield
12 The Literature of Controversy 191Joad Raymond
Part III Texts 211
13 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity,' 'Upon the Circumcision,' and 'The Passion' 213Thomas N. Corns
14 The Poetic Promise of 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' 230Noam Reisner
15 John Milton's Comus 241Leah S. Marcus
16 'Lycidas' 255Stella P. Revard
17 Milton's Sonnets 270Ryan Netzley
18 Exact Latinity and Excellent English: Milton's Early Poetry 282Sarah Knight
19 Early Political Prose 291Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler
20 Milton, Marriage, and Divorce 308Annabel Patterson
21 Republicanism 323Martin Dzelzainis
22 Late Political Prose 338Laura Lunger Knoppers
23 Milton in Intellectual History 356Stephen M. Fallon
24 The Radical Religious Politics of Paradise Lost 376David Loewenstein
25 Obedience and Autonomy in Paradise Lost 391Michael Schoenfeldt
26 Paradise Lost and the Multiplicity of Time 408Amy Boesky
27 Self-Contradicting Puns in Paradise Lost 421John Leonard
28 A Paradise for Poets 439Maggie Kilgour
29 Milton and his Epic Precursors: Overgoing and Recuperation 450Tobias Gregory
30 'Nor vacuous the space': Milton's Chaos and the Vacuist–Plenist Controversy 460Rachel Trubowitz
31 Samson Agonistes 475Sharon Achinstein
32 Memorial, Performance, and Tragic Action in Samson Agonistes 493Feisal G. Mohamed
33 Paradise Regained 503Margaret Kean
34 Satan, the Son of God, and the Brief Epic 517Thomas N. Corns
Part IV Influences and Impact 529
35 Reading Milton, 1674–1800 531Kay Gilliland Stevenson
36 Milton: The Romantics and After 547Peter J. Kitson
37 Milton's Global Impact 566
The Arabic-Speaking World 567Islam Issa
China 570Tianhu Hao
India 573Malabika Sarkar
Japan 576Hiroko Sano
Korea 579Byung-Eun Lee
Spanish-Speaking America 581Mario Murgia
Part V Chronology 585
The Life and Times of John Milton: A Chronology 587Thomas N. Corns
Consolidated Bibliography 602
Index 641