Table of Contents

"How Laudian Was the Young Milton?"; "Rhetoric, Passion, & Belief in The Readie & Easie Way"; "Pirating Paradise: Alexander the Great, the Dutch East Indies, & Satanic Empire in Paradise Lost"; "Greedily she ingorg'd": Eve & the Bread of Life"; "The Trinity in Milton's Hell"; "Monism & Metaphor in Paradise Lost"; "Pardon may be found in time besought": Time Structures of the Mind in Paradise Lost"; "Reconstructing Milton's Lost Index Theologicus: The Genesis & Usage of an Anti-Bellarmine, Theological Commonplace Book"; "Milton's Aristotelian Experiments: Tragedy, Lustratio, & 'Secret refreshings' in Samson Agonistes (1671)".

About the Author

Laura L. Knoppers is professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Widely published on seventeenth century literature, politics, religion, and visual culture, she is most recently the author of Politicizing Domesticity from Henrietta Maria to Milton's Eve and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution. Her Oxford scholarly edition of Milton's Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes won the 2008 John Shawcross Award from the Milton Society of America. Knoppers is past chair of the Northeast Milton Seminar and past president of the Milton Society of America.