List of Figures
Note on the Text and List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction. Why Milton in the Long Restoration, Blair Hoxby
I. RECEPTION AND INTERPRETATION
1. Milton's Spots: Addison on Paradise Lost, Denise Gigante
2. Critical Mass: Contextualizing Bentley's Paradise Lost, David A. Harper
3. 'A Fine Paradisaical Notion': Materialism and Readings of Paradise Lost in the 'Long Restoration', N. K. Sugimura
4. 'In the Dun Air Sublime': Milton, the Richardsons, and the Invention of Aesthetic Categories, Blair Hoxby
II. THE DRAMATIC AND THEATRICAL MILTON
5. Milton's Essay of Dramatic Poesy: Samson Agonistes, Ann Baynes Coiro
6. John Dennis, John Locke, and the Sublimation of Revolt: Samson Agonistes after the Glorious Revolution, Catherine Gimelli Martin
7. 'To Secure Our Freedom': How A Mask Presented at Ludlow-Castle Became Milton's Comus, Blaine Greteman
8. Milton Modulated for Handel's Music, Ruth Smith
III. LINEAL DESCENTS AND CLANS
9. John Dryden Meets, Rhymes, and Says Farewell to John Milton: A Restoration Drama in Four Scenes, Steven N. Zwicker
10. 'I Still Deny'd, Much Pleas'd to Hear You Sue': Milton's Eve, Ovid, and the Restoration Coquette, Laura L. Knoppers
11. Angel Bodies to Whig Souls: Blank Verse after Blenheim, Dustin D. Stewart
12. Yet Once More: Milton's Lyric Descendants, Christopher R. Miller
13. Milton's Pope, Sophie Gee
IV. CONDITIONS OF LIBERTY
14. The Circling Hours: Revolution in Paradise Regained, Gregory Chaplin
15. 'In Power of Others, Never in My Own': The Meaning of Slavery in Samson Agonistes, Martin Dzelzainis
16. Milton and the Restoration Literae, Nicholas von Maltzahn
17. Milton, Newton, and the Implications of Arianism, Stephen M. Fallon
18. Friday as Fit Help, Mary Nyquist
V. WIDER WORLDS
19. Early Modern Marriage in a Secular Age: Beyond the Sexual Contract, Sharon Achinstein
20. Haak's Milton, Nigel Smith
21. Miltonic Texts and European Politics, 1674-1682, Jason Peacey
22. Purging the Visual Nerve: Exploration, 'Revelation', and Cosmography in Milton Commentaries and Criticism of the Long Restoration, Anne-Julia Zwierlein
23. Some Thoughts on Periodization: John Milton to Adam Smith and Beyond, Steven Pincus
VI. EPIC, MOCK EPIC, AND THE NOVEL
24. Milton, the Long Restoration, and Pope's Iliad, John Leonard
25. Paradise Lost and English Mock Heroic, Anthony Welch
26. Milton and the People, Joanna Picciotto
27. Paradise Lost in the Long Restoration, 1660-1742: The Parody of Form, Michael McKeon
28. Raphael's Condescension: Paradise Lost, Jane Austen, and the Secular Displacement of Grace, Paul Stevens
VII. MILTON'S LIVES
29. 'His Ears Now Were Eyes to Him': The Lives of Milton in the Long Restoration, Jayne Lewis
Bibliography
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