Milton and the burden of freedom /
Throughout his writings, Milton, deeply engaged in political and theological controversy, sought to clear a space for human freedom in a world ruled by an omniscient and omnipotent deity. Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes, as well as other works by Milton in verse and prose, explore the problematic...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Free to fall: Milton and the Old Testament God
- Milton's post-Calvinist theology
- 'Providence their guide': providence in Milton
- The unpolluted temple of the mind: virtue on trial
- Classical and Biblical Republicanism: Milton and some contemporaries
- Victory's crest: Milton, the English nation, and Cromwell
- Monarchy and servitude: the politics of Paradise Lost
- God's just yoke: power and justice in Paradise Lost
- 'Tyrannie must be': Milton and the Restoration
- Postscript.