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The interpretation of Paradise Lost has undergone remarkable changes in the last twenty years. This new collection of essays maps these changes, showing how they have been achieved by the combined discourses of Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis, and poststructuralism. The essays are by writers working at the forefront of current criticism, and not only provide an overview of contemporary readings of one of the seminal works of English literature, but also indicate the range and subtlety of the revolution in English studies that has taken place in the past two decades. Paradise Lost is revealed as a work of immediate and challenging relevance.>
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Acknowledgements
General Editors' Preface
Introduction; W.Zunder
Paradise Lost and the English Revolution; C.Hill
The Protestant Epic and the Spirit of Capitalism; A.Milner
Religion and Ideology: A Political Reading of Paradise Lost; F.Jameson
Milton's Bogey: Patriarchal Poetry and Women Readers; S.M.Gilbert
'Rational Burning': Milton on Sex and Marriage; D.Aers & B.Jodge
The Genesis of Gendered Subjectivity in Paradise Lost; M.Nyquist
Paradise Lost and the Primal Scene; W.Kerrigan
Adam and His 'Other Self' in Paradise Lost: A Lacanian Study in Psychic Development'; C.M.Champagne
Paradise Lost: Ideology, Phantasy and Contradiction; A.Easthope
Adam on the Grass with Balsamum; G.Hartman
Paradise Lost as Master-Narrative; C.Belsey
Freedom, Service, and the Trade in Slaves: The Problem of Labour in Paradise Lost; M.Quilligan
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.
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WILLIAM ZUNDER is Fellow in English at the University of Hull, UK.
