Milton and modernity
Subtitle: politics, masculinity, and Paradise lost
By: Matthew Jordan.
Publisher: Palgrave, 2001.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Milton, John, 1608-1674; Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Political and social views; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Political poetry, English -- History and criticism; Free will and determinism in literature; Individualism in literature
Description: "This book presents a theoretical and historicized reading of the production of the 'autonomous' subject in Milton's prose and in Paradise Lost. It rejects the current orthodoxy that liberal humanism is just a form of domination, and reads Milton's texts as revolutionary.

Although Milton participates in the formation of discourses of sexuality, labour and the nature of reason which come to be normative, neither Milton's texts nor modernity more generally can be understood without also accepting the dynamism inherent in the belief in individual freedom."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-225) and index.