Inside "Paradise Lost" by Quint, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Milton’s Book of Numbers: Book 1 and Its Catalog

The Shape of the Catalog

Moloch and Belial 1 Moloch and Saturn 1 Moloch and Saturn 2: A Miniature Aeneid Moloch and Belial 2: Libya and Sodom Egypt

The Catalog and Pandaemonium The Logic of the Similes in Book 1 Raising Devils Appendix: Demonic Swashbucklers

2. Ulysses and the Devils: The Unity of Book 2

The Council Moloch and Belial Again: Ajax and Ulysses Mammon and Beelzebub: A Thersites Is Rebuked Satan and the Doloneia Meanwhile, Back in Hell … Milton’s Telegony Satan’s Odyssey Whose Odyssey?

3. Fear of Falling: Icarus, Phaethon, and Lucretius

Icarus and Satan’s Fall Through Chaos

Virgil and Lucretius Dante, Tasso, Ovid Satan Voyager

Phaethon, the Son, and the War in Heaven Flight and Fall A Poetry Against Falling

4. Light, Vision, and the Unity of Book 3

Structure and Design Universal Blank Vision The Sun The Paradise of Fools Sun Worshippers Poetry and Science

5. The Politics of Envy

Envy and the New Dispensation Angels and Courtiers Brotherhood versus Kingship in Books 11–12

6. Getting What You Wish For: A Reading of the Fall

The Seduction of Eve The Second Adam as Second Eve Adam’s Choice: “One flesh” “Not vastly disproportionall” Changing Places Appendix: A Note on the Separation Scene

7. Reversing the Fall in Book 10

Virgilian Coordinates and the End of Satan

Creation and Anti-creation Anti-triumphs The Triumphs of the Son Satan’s Triumph Adam and the Winds

The Recovery of Human Choice Cherishing Eve

Dido and Armida; Creusa Pandora The Exposed Matron

8. Leaving Eden

Deconsecrated Earth Good-bye

Notes Bibliography Index