Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part One: The Author Function; 1. The Great lnstauration: Imaginary Narratives in Milton’s "Nativity Ode" Richard Halpern 2. Two Masques of Ceres and Proserpine: "Camus" and "The Tempest" Mary Loeffelholz 3. Milton and Sexuality: A Symptomatic Reading of "Camus" Christopher Kendrick 4. The Author’s Authority: "Areopagitica" and the Labour of Licensing Abbie Blum; Part Two: Texts in their Contemporary Contexts; 5. The Genesis of Gendered Subjectivity in the Divorce Tracts and in "Paradise Lost" Mary Nyquist 6. David’s Census: Milton’s Politics and "Paradise Regained" David Quint 7. The Father’s House: "Samson Agonistes" in its Historical Moment John Guillory; Part Three: The Written Word; 8. Milton’s Graphic Poetics Richard Bradford 9. Melos versus Logos or Why Doesn’t God Sing: Some Thoughts on Milton’s Wisdom Eleanor Cook 10. The Blotted Book Herbert Marks 11. Driving from the Letter: Truth and Indeterminacy in Milton’s "Areopagitica" Stanley Fish; Part Four: Re-memberings; 12. Blake’s "Milton": On Membership in the Church Paul David Reide 13. Milton and Afro-American Literature Carolivia Herron 14. Love between Milton and Wordsworth Robin Jarvis 15. Satan and the Romantic Satan: A Notebook Kenneth Gross 16. The God that Failed Terry Eagleton; Index

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Mary Nyquist, Margaret W. Ferguson