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Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Edition Series) » (3rd Edition)
Authors: John Milton, Gordon Teskey
ISBN-13: 9780393924282, ISBN-10: 0393924289
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: November 2004
Edition: 3rd Edition
Author Biography: John Milton
Gordon Teskey is Professor of English at Harvard University. He is the author of Delirious Milton: The Poet in the Modern World and Allegory and Violence, and co-editor of Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance.
Book Synopsis
This Norton Critical Edition is designed to make Paradise Lost accessible for student readers, providing invaluable contextual and biographical information and the tools students need to think critically about this landmark epic.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | ||
| General Editors' Preface | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Paradise Lost and the English Revolution | 15 |
| 2 | The Protestant Epic and the Spirit of Capitalism | 28 |
| 3 | Religion and Ideology: A Political Reading of Paradise Lost | 47 |
| 4 | Milton's Bogey: Patriarchal Poetry and Women Readers | 58 |
| 5 | 'Rational Burning': Milton on Sex and Marriage | 67 |
| 6 | The Genesis of Gendered Subjectivity in Paradise Lost | 88 |
| 7 | Paradise Lost and the Primal Scene | 102 |
| 8 | Adam and his 'Other Self' in Paradise Lost: A Lacanian Study in Psychic Development | 117 |
| 9 | Paradise Lost: Ideology, Phantasy and Contradiction | 136 |
| 10 | Adam on the Grass with Balsamum | 145 |
| 11 | Paradise Lost as Master-Narrative | 160 |
| 12 | Freedom, Service, and the Trade in Slaves: The Problem of Labour in Paradise Lost | 170 |
| Further Reading | 195 | |
| Notes on Contributors | 199 | |
| Index | 201 |
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