Destabilizing Milton: Paradise Lost and the Poetics of Incertitude

by Peter C. Herman

Destabilizing Milton challenges the widely accepted view of Milton as a poet of absolute, unquestioning certainty. In Paradise Lost, Milton confronts the failure of the Revolution by creating a poem that refuses to grant the reader any interpretive stability or certainty. Doubts can no longer be contained and concepts once marked by a 'fundamental immobility' now seem unstable at best. Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes equally reflect Milton's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140396761X
• ISBN13: 9781403967619
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.6"