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Milton and Modernity

Politics, Masculinity and Paradise Lost

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  • © 2001

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  1. Matthew Jordan

    1. Liverpool John Moores University, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-18

  3. ‘Born to command and not to obey’

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    Pages 19-44

  4. ‘No respecter of persons’

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    Pages 45-78

  5. ‘Stronger then Death’

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    Pages 79-114

  6. Labour and Love

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    Pages 115-150

  7. Conclusion

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    Pages 151-159

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 160-228
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This book presents a theoretical and historicized reading of the production of the 'autonomous' subject in Milton's prose and in Paradise Lost. It rejects the current orthodoxy that liberal humanism is just a form of domination, and reads Milton's texts as revolutionary. Although Milton participates in the formation of discourses of sexuality, labour and the nature of reason which come to be normative, neither Milton's texts nor modernity more generally can be understood without also accepting the dynamism inherent in the belief in individual freedom.

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  • Liverpool John Moores University, UK

    Matthew Jordan

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MATTHEW JORDAN is Lecturer in Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University.

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