Inside 'paradise Lost' (ebook)

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"Some books matter for what they say, others for when they say it. Inside Paradise Lost matters for both these reasons, and especially for the latter. It is a timely aesthetic study which will be read and re-read by Milton scholars and students. It will be mined for its learning, discussed, challenged, and enjoyed. Literary studies will be so much the better for it."--Leah Whittington, The Cambridge Quarterly

"Quint proves a deeply engaging and illuminating guide to the designs, both large and small, of Milton’s epic and his career. . . . Quint has a gift for pithy and apt eloquence. . . . There have been many fine books on Milton’s epic and its relation to the long epic tradition, but none finer than Quint’s."--Stephen M. Fallon, Modern Philology

"David Quint's elegant, learned, and nuanced study of Paradise Lost and its designs contains enormous riches. . . . It is a pleasure to read a critical book so sensitive to the rich poetic texture of Milton’s work. Thanks to his substantial knowledge of early modern European literature and classical reception, Quint offers a wealth of fresh readings of the poem's allusions to classical and European epics, as well as to scriptural texts."--David Loewenstein, Modern Language Quarterly

"For its playful style and learned approach, readers will relish, as I did, the chance to return to originals newly brought to light, to attend to delicious intricacies of text, to quarrel, even, with findings. This is a bravura performance, a deeply learned book that should be read by students and scholars of Renaissance comparative literature, and those interested in classical reception, and will be required reading for Milton scholars and students."--Sharon Achinstein, Renassiance Quarterly

"This learned, groundbreaking study illuminates the intricate narrative patterns that are woven into the fabric of Paradise Lost and demonstrates the poem's deeply allusive relationship to prior epic. . . . This book is necessary reading for Miltonists and scholars interested in the epic tradition. And the clear prose and carefully articulated arguments make it fully accessible and helpful to less experienced readers."--Choice

"As in a great lecture, Quint never roams far from the language of the poem and as the first half of the book moves through the poem chronologically, it would be a particularly useful guide for advanced undergraduates."--Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Times Literary Supplement

Winner of the 2015 James Holly Hanford Award, The Milton Society of America
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
Shortlisted for the 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society

"This learned, carefully pondered, and admirably lucid book combines some of the features of a scholarly monograph with those of a critical overview of Milton's greatest poem."--David Hopkins, Milton Quarterly

"This magisterial study combines massive erudition with great interpretive subtlety. Written with lucidity and wit, Inside 'Paradise Lost' provides an indispensable revisionary account of the Miltonic epic's relation to its epic predecessors and to literary tradition more generally."--Joshua Scodel, University of Chicago

"This is a comprehensive, freshly researched, and fully articulated reading of Paradise Lost as a whole. The results are revelatory. Astonishingly, some of Milton's unmistakable imitations of major predecessors are being cited here apparently for the first time. Quint's book is essential reading not only for Miltonists but also for scholars of comparative epic, the Renaissance's relation to the classics, and the classical tradition more generally. At the same time, the book's clear prose and careful analysis make it accessible to students."--Gordon Braden, University of Virginia0Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1.MILTON'S BOOK OF NUMBERS: BOOK 1 AND ITS CATALOG 15
The Shape of the Catalog 17
Moloch and Belial 1 18
Moloch and Saturn 1 19
Moloch and Saturn 2: A Miniature Aeneid 20
Moloch and Belial 2: Libya and Sodom 22
Egypt 23
The Catalog and Pandaemonium 24
The Logic of the Similes in Book 1 26
Raising Devils 29
Appendix: Demonic Swashbucklers 35
2.ULYSSES AND THE DEVILS: THE UNITY OF BOOK 2 38
The Council 41
Moloch and Belial Again: Ajax and Ulysses 42
Mammon and Beelzebub: A Thersites Is Rebuked 48
Satan and the Doloneia 50
Meanwhile, Back in Hell . . . 52
Milton's Telegony 55
Satan's Odyssey 58
Whose Odyssey? 59
3.FEAR OF FALLING: ICARUS, PHAETHON, AND LUCRETIUS 63
Icarus and Satan's Fall Through Chaos 64
Virgil and Lucretius 64
Dante, Tasso, Ovid 67
Satan Voyager 71
Phaethon, the Son, and the War in Heaven 75
Flight and Fall 85
A Poetry Against Falling 88
4.LIGHT, VISION, AND THE UNITY OF BOOK 3 93
Structure and Design 96
Universal Blank 99
Vision 106
The Sun 109
The Paradise of Fools 111
Sun Worshippers 114
Poetry and Science 118
5.THE POLITICS OF ENVY 122
Envy and the New Dispensation 124
Angels and Courtiers 132
Brotherhood versus Kingship in Books 11-12 144
6.GETTING WHAT YOU WISH FOR: A READING OF THE FALL153
The Seduction of Eve 156
The Second Adam as Second Eve 169
Adam's Choice: "One flesh" 176
"Not vastly disproportionall" 185
Changing Places 188
Appendix: A Note on the Separation Scene 195
7.REVERSING THE FALL IN BOOK 10 197
Virgilian Coordinates and the End of Satan 200
Creation and Anti-creation 202
Anti-triumphs 203
The Triumphs of the Son 206
Satan's Triumph 208
Adam and the Winds 211
The Recovery of Human Choice 212
Cherishing Eve 218
Dido and Armida; Creusa 219
Pandora 223
The Exposed Matron 229
8.LEAVING EDEN 234
Deconsecrated Earth 236
Good-bye 245
Notes 249
Bibliography 285
Index 301