Milton Studies: v. 38 John Milton: The Writer in His Works

This volume of ten essays is a multi-author collection of postmodern biographical studies of Milton. It paves the way for a revisionist understanding of how, why and where multiple presences of Milton appear in his writings in ways previously unimagined. As a reaction to traditional biographical study, which stresses the documented and documentary life of an author, these essays instead probe the interior life of Milton by identifying its psychic traces in his writings, and then examining their significance. This type of study leads to citations of evidence and means of interpretation - furnishing critical models for postmodern biographical study. Comprehensive in their coverage, the essays treat many of the poems in the 1645 edition, including "Paradise Lost", "Paradise Regained" and "Samson Agonistes".