Title: Milton and modernity
First published: December 18, 2000
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.
Subjects: History, Individualism in literature, Politics and literature, Free will and determinism in literature, History and criticism, Political poetry, English, Political and social views, English Political poetry, Milton, john, 1608-1674, Masculinity in literature, Political poetry, history and criticism, Politics in literature, Milton, john, 1608-1674, paradise lost
Places: Great Britain
People: John Milton (1608-1674)
Time periods: 17th century
LC classification: PR3562 .J67 2001