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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
