Contents
Preface: Miltonic Poetics (Laura L. Knoppers)
Poetry and Theology
Peculiar and Personal: Milton’s De Doctrina Christiana (John K. Hale)
The Ecology of Chaos in Paradise Lost (Sarah Smith)
Mortal Change Life after Death in Paradise Lost (Mandy Green)
Materialist Poetics
Milton’s Sensuous Poetics: On the Material Texts of Paradise Lost (Thomas Festa)
Milton’s Earthbound Bodies: Genesis, Physics, Aesthetics (Caryn O’Connell)
Poetic Genealogies
Writing Epic in the Aftermath of Civil War: Paradise Lost, the Aeneid, and the Politics of Contemporary History (David Loewenstein)
Heroic Restorations: Dryden and Milton (Thomas H. Luxon)
Milton, Deliberative Liberty, and the Law of Spousal Privileges (Todd Butler)
Index