Composed after the collapse of his political hopes, Milton's great poems Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes are an effort to understand what

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.

The focus of this study is the perception of nature in the language of poetry and the languages of natural philosophy, technology, theology, and global explorat