Offering a radically transhistorical view of modernity, Lee Morrissey recasts Milton's major late poems as fictions narrating three varying responses to a world in upheaval: adjustment, avoidance and antagonism. This invigorating alternative to traditionally historicist Milton scholarship is simultaneously a prompt to rethink early modern studies.
Offering a radically transhistorical view of modernity, Lee Morrissey recasts Milton's major late poems as fictions narrating three varying responses to a world in upheaval: adjustment, avoidance and antagonism. This invigorating alternative to traditionally historicist Milton scholarship is simultaneously a prompt to rethink early modern studies.
Lee Morrissey is Alumni Distinguished Professor of English at Clemson University, USA. He is the author of The Constitution of Literature: Literacy, Democracy, and Early English Literary Criticism (2008) and From the Temple to the Castle: An Architectural History of English Literature, 1660-1760 (1999), and is a co-author of English Literature in Context (2008, rev. 2nd ed. 2017).
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Introduction: Forms of modernity 1.'Sense variously drawn': On reading Paradise Lost 2. The Reformation of Paradise Lost: Moderating modernity with measurement 3. Paradise Regained: An aesthetic for a new ascetic 4. Samson's modernity: A tragedy of beset manhood Conclusion: 'The modern paradox': Temporal forms of modernity.
Introduction: Forms of modernity 1.'Sense variously drawn': On reading Paradise Lost 2. The Reformation of Paradise Lost: Moderating modernity with measurement 3. Paradise Regained: An aesthetic for a new ascetic 4. Samson's modernity: A tragedy of beset manhood Conclusion: 'The modern paradox': Temporal forms of modernity.
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