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This book is about the multiple loves of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Milton's Loves sheds new light on some of the most prominent concerns of Milton scholarship, including: why Milton's God is so difficult for readers to connect to; Satan's apparent heroism; Milton's radical theology; and the nature of Milton's muse
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Critical Loves
2 The Loves of an Educated Man
3 Love and Emotion
4 Love and Conflict
5 An Unlikely Couple
6 ‘Milton’s Bogey’
7 Milton’s Epic Loves
1 Lessons in Love: Raphael and Adam
1.1 Virtuous and Obedient Love
1.2 Loving Things
1.3 Ascending and Descending Ladders
1.4 ‘The Affable Arch-Angel’
2 Falling in Love: Adam and Eve
2.1 The Terms of Marriage
2.2 Separation
2.3 The Theory and Practice of Love
3 Strange Love: God the Father
3.1 Fatherly Distance
3.2 Princely Companionship
3.3 Creating an Equal
3.4 ‘All in All’
4 The Anti-Friend: Satan
4.1 False Friendship
4.2 Companions of Woe
4.3 The Temptation of Friendship
4.4 Satan’s Solitude
5 Suspended in Love: The Son
5.1 Between God and Humans
5.2 The Missing Body
5.3 ‘The Glorious Eremite’
6 In the Name of Love: The Narrator and Muse
6.1 One or Two Voices
6.2 Visitations
6.3 Urania
6.4 Being Led
Conclusion
Index
About the author
Rosamund Paice is Associate Lecturer in English Literature at Newcastle University and Northumbria University.
Summary
This book is about the multiple loves of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Milton’s Loves sheds new light on some of the most prominent concerns of Milton scholarship, including: why Milton’s God is so difficult for readers to connect to; Satan’s apparent heroism; Milton’s radical theology; and the nature of Milton’s muse
