The phrase “early modern” challenges readers and scholars to explore ways in which that period expands and refines contemporary views of the modern. The ori

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 c

Lee Morrissey explores how Milton's major late poems narrate varying responses to modernity: adjustment, avoidance, and antagonism.

This book argues that sovereignty is the first-order question of political order, and that seventeenth-century England provides an important case study in the r