Table of Contents

List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: 'Those thoughts that wander through eternity' Juliet Cummins; Part I. Millennium: 1. Milton and the Millennium Barbara K. Lewalski; 2. Mede, Milton and More: Christ's College Millenarians Sarah Hutton; 3. Milton and Millenarianism: from the Nativity Ode to Paradise Regained Stella P. Revard; 4. Astronomical signs in Paradise Lost: Milton, Ophiucus and the Millennial debate Malabika Sarkar; 5. The Millennial moment: Milton vs 'Milton' William B. Hunter; 6. Confusion: the apocalypse, the millennium John T. Shawcross; Part II. Apocalypse: 7. John Martin's apocalyptic illustrations to Paradise Lost Beverley Sherry; 8. The enclosed garden and the apocalypse: immanent versus transcendent time in Milton and Marvell Catherine Gimelli Martin; 9. Matter and apocalyptic transformations in Paradise Lost Juliet Cummins; 10. 'New heavens, new earth': apocalypse and the loss of sacramentality in the Postlapsarian books of Paradise Lost Claude N. Stulting, Jr; 11. The apocalypse in Paradise Regained Ken Simpson; 12. Inspiration and melancholy in Samson Agonistes Karen Edwards; Afterword: 'The Time is Come' David Loewenstein.

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In this text, a team of leading international scholars addresses Milton's treatment of millennial and apocalyptic ideas.

About the Author

Juliet Lucy Cummins is Lecturer in English in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Sydney. She has published essays on literary and legal topics in various journals including Milton Studies.

Reviews

"This is a fascinating, carefully argued book, taking Milton's 'monism' in a different direction, and it will need to be engaged by those who write on or teach Milton." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 "The high quality and diverse disciplines represented in the volume will appeal to scholars in many fields as well as stimlating new readings by Miltonists. The work adds a necessary contribution to the complex field of seveteenth-century eschatology." Renaissance Quarterly, Margaret J. Arnold