Regaining paradise lost
This text seeks to restore "Paradise Lost" to its original cultural context in order that its relevance to a 20th-century audience can be realized. The study aims to demonstrate how ideologies may, in high art, survive their political eclipse.
ix, 151 pages ; 22 cm.
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1. God: Earth and heaven, time and space; the Father and the Son; the Holy Spirit 2. Good and bad angels: the physical properties of angels; the problem of Satan 3. People: knowing; the private life of Adam and Eve; the obligation of choice; salvation; after the fall 4.Chaos and the created world: chaos, light and the deep; nature and fecundity 5. The English epic: neoclassicism and the English epic; the syntax of "Paradise Lost"; narrative structure 6. The politics of "Paradise Lost": Milton and the failed revolution; the legacy of revolution; the political animal; republican and anti-clerical values.