Milton's modernities : poetry, philosophy, and history from the seventeenth century to the present /

Milton's modernities : poetry, philosophy, and history from the seventeenth century to the present / edited by Feisal G. Mohamed and Patrick Fadely. - Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - Rethinking the early modern .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Satan or Samson? The question of Milton and modernity / Periodizing Milton : in Two Sallies / "The mind is its own place" : Lucretian moral philosophy in Paradise lost / Learning from history : empiricism, likeness, and liberty in Paradise lost, Books 11-12 / Divine violence and the messianic possibilities of Samson Agonistes / Constituent providence and antinomian obedience : monistic stories in Spinoza's Ethics and Milton's Paradise lost / Miltonic mind / Milton's sublime Judaism and Hegel's Religion der Erhabenheit : the ends of typology and the impossibility of Christianity / Milton's tacitist sovereignty / "A secular bird ages" : Samson Agonistes as a tragic reaction against modernity / Insideoutput : Milton's inspiration / Tablet for the God of Israel : Robert Medley's 1979 Samson Agonistes / Afterword: Suddenly emergent Milton / Patrick Fadely and Feisal G. Mohamed -- James Nohrnberg -- Jessie Hock -- Ryan Netzley -- Jennifer Tole -- Christopher Kendrick -- Sanford Budick -- Russ Leo -- Feisal G. Mohamed -- Lee Morrissey -- Gordon Teskey -- Wendy Furman-Adams -- Sharon Achinstein.



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