Single Imperfection: Milton, Marriage, and Friendship

by Thomas H. Luxon

This book takes a fresh look at John Milton's major poems Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, and Paradise Regained and a few of the minor ones in light of a new analysis of Milton's famous tracts on divorce. Luxon contends that Milton's work is best understood as part of a major cultural project in which Milton assumed a leading role the redefinition of Protestant marriage as a heteroerotic version of classical friendship, originally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820703737
• ISBN13: 9780820703732
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 231 Pages