Table of Contents

Acknowledgements General Editors' Preface Introduction; W.Zunder Paradise Lost and the English Revolution; C.Hill The Protestant Epic and the Spirit of Capitalism; A.Milner Religion and Ideology: A Political Reading of Paradise Lost; F.Jameson Milton's Bogey: Patriarchal Poetry and Women Readers; S.M.Gilbert 'Rational Burning': Milton on Sex and Marriage; D.Aers & B.Jodge The Genesis of Gendered Subjectivity in Paradise Lost; M.Nyquist Paradise Lost and the Primal Scene; W.Kerrigan Adam and His 'Other Self' in Paradise Lost: A Lacanian Study in Psychic Development'; C.M.Champagne Paradise Lost: Ideology, Phantasy and Contradiction; A.Easthope Adam on the Grass with Balsamum; G.Hartman Paradise Lost as Master-Narrative; C.Belsey Freedom, Service, and the Trade in Slaves: The Problem of Labour in Paradise Lost; M.Quilligan Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index.

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WILLIAM ZUNDER is Fellow in English at the University of Hull.