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Milton and Modernity: Politics, the Individual and Paradise Lost by Matthew Jordan is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.

What is Milton and Modernity: Politics, the Individual and Paradise Lost about?

"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

Who reads Milton and Modernity: Politics, the Individual and Paradise Lost?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Matthew Jordan
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Published
2000
Language
EN
ISBN
9780333746752
Category
literary studies
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Poetry, Literary Criticism
Updated
2026-03-25

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