Table of Contents
Preface
PART ONE: MATERIALS
Editions and Texts
Reference Works and Biographies
AV and Online Aids
Required and Recommended Reading For Undergraduates
The Instructor's Library
PART TWO: APPROACHES
Introduction
Peter C. Herman
Literary and Historical Contexts
Teaching Paradise Lost and the Bible
Regina Schwartz
Paradise Lost and the Jews
Achsah Guibbory
Teaching Paradise Lost and the Epic Tradition
Jessica Wolfe
Clues to the Classical Tradition
Abraham Stoll
Paradise Lost and Milton's Revolutionary Prose and Poetry
Thomas Fulton
Radical Politics in Paradise Lost?
David Loewenstein
Characters
The Problem of God
Michael Bryson
The Problem of Satan: Or How to Teach Satan on His Own Terms
Gregory M. Colon Semenza
Teaching Eve: The Grammar of Eden
Julia Walker
Milton's Adam
Richard Rambuss
Paradise Lost and Milton's Biography
John Shawcross
Poetics
Narrators
Elizabeth Sauer
Approaches to Teaching Paradise Lost Allegorically
Catherine G. Martin
Fit Quantity of Syllables
John Leonard
Critical Approaches
The Analogical Approach to Paradise Lost and Milton's Prose: Uses and Abuses
Feisal G. Mohammed
Editing Milton with Richard Bentley
Anthony Welch
Visualizing Paradise Lost: Artists Teaching Milton
Wendy Furman-Adams
Imitating Milton in the Classroom
Sean Keilen
Teaching Paradise Lost Through Adaptation (Or, Books Promiscuously Read)
Lauren Shohet
Teaching Paradise Lost through the New Milton Criticism
Peter C. Herman
Dieting in Paradise: Angelic Eating, Metaphysics and Poetry in Paradise Lost
William Kolbrener
Ecocritical Milton
Jeffrey Theis
Classrooms
Paradise Lost in the British Literature Survey Course
Boyd M. Berry
Teaching Paradise Lost in the Western Civ. Classroom
Randall Ingram
The John Milton Reading Room: Teaching Paradise Lost with an Online Edition
Thomas Luxon
Performance and Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost as Oral Epic
Hugh Richmond
Premeditated Verse: All-day Readings of Milton's Epic
Angelica Duran
Notes on Contributors
Survey Participants
Works Cited