Table of Contents:
  • About This Volume
  • Milton's Paradise Lost: Epic Lessons in How to Avoid Idolatry
  • Biography of John Milton (1608-1675)
  • Critical Contexts
  • The Early Modern Prison in Milton's Paradise Lost
  • Editors' Introductions to Paradise Lost from 1950 to 2007
  • Fall into Pain: Paradise Lost as a Narrative of Trauma
  • "Eden rais'd in the wast Wilderness": Post-Postlapsarian Landscapes in Paradise Regain'd
  • Critical Readings
  • Milton and Me: The Genesis of the New Milton Criticism
  • Paradise Lost as a Dictated Text: I. Theoretical Considerations
  • Paradise Lost as a Dictated Text: II. Possible Vestiges of Dictation in the Text
  • Revealing True Warfare: Courage and Its Deceptive Appearance
  • Temperance and the Felix Culpa in Paradise Lost
  • Access Denied: Gates and Interdictions in Paradise Lost
  • Angelic Intelligence and Human Culpability in Paradise Lost
  • An Interview about Two Paradise Losts: by John Milton and Erin Shields
  • Erin Shields's Paradise Lost: Its Success as a Work of Art
  • Erin Shields's Paradise Lost: A Survey of Reviews
  • Broadening Milton's Audience through Art and Adaptation: The Appeal of Cabanel and Mossman
  • Resources
  • Chronology
  • Works by John Milton
  • Bibliography
  • About the Editor
  • Contributors
  • Index.