Milton and Modernity: Politics, Masculinity and Paradise Lost

Jordan, M.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2000-12-18

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333746752

DOI: 10.1057/9780333985168

Dimensions: 203cm x127cm

Pages: 228