Milton's Paradise Lost: Moral Education

by M. Thickstun

Overview

This book reads Milton's Paradise Lost as a poem that seeks to educate its readers by narrating the education of its main characters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403977571
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	06/08/2007
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

MARGARET OLOFSON THICKSTUN holds the Elizabeth J. McCormack Professorship in English Literature at Hamilton College, USA.

Table of Contents

Teaching Paradise Lost in the Twenty-First Century God as Father Satan, Interpretive Choices, and the Danger of Fixed Stories Abdiel, Peer Pressure, and the Rebel Angels The Good Angels, Gratitude, and Growing in Community The Education of the Son Raphael and the Challenge of Evangelical Education Adam as Parent Eve, Identity, and Growing in Relationship

Editorial Reviews

'My favorite of all the recent Milton books, Margaret Olofson Thickstun's Milton's Paradise Lost: Moral Education, points out how occupied with teaching and learning everyone except Satan is ...The author emphasizes the earthy humbleness that anchors this loftiest of poems.' - Jonathan Rosen in The New Yorker

'Thickstun is a canny close reader.' - Roger Pooley, Modern Language Review

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