Tables of Contents for Milton

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Chronology

The chronology of events in Paradise Lost

Part I. Paradise Lost in Milton's Career and Age: 1. 'Long choosing, and beginning late'

2. Lycidas

3. Writing in the English Revolution and the Restoration

4. Milton's blindness

5. The Christian Doctrine and Milton's theological heresies

Part II. Interpreting Paradise Lost: 6. 'Say first what cause': Paradise Lost and beginnings

7. 'To raise/That Name': Paradise Lost and epic ambition

8. The voice of the poet

9. Answerable styles

10. Satan: daring ambition and heroic ideology

11. Hell: geographical place and internal state

12. God, providence, and free will

13. Milton's Eden

14. Adam and Eve and human sexuality

15. The material cosmos of Paradise Lost

16. War in Heaven

17. Creation

18. The tragedy of the Fall

19. Postlapsarian history and the inner paradise

Part III. The Literary Afterlife of Paradise Lost: 20. Revisions from the restoration to the romantics.