Critical essays on John Milton / edited by Christopher Kendrick.

Introduction / Christopher Kendrick
How to do things with Milton: a study in the politics of literary criticism / Carl Freedman
Thoughts in misbecoming plight: allegory in Comus / Victoria Silver
Things and actions indifferent: the temptation of plot in Paradise regained / Stanley Fish
Paradise regained and the politics of martyrdom / Laura Lunger Knoppers
"Casting down imaginations": Milton as iconoclast / David Loewenstein
Reading, seeing, and acting in Samson Agonistes / William Flesch
John Milton and the republican mode of literary production / Peter Lindenbaum
The Genesis of gendered subjectivity in the divorce tracts and in Paradise lost / Mary Nyquist
Milton, narcissism, gender: on the genealogy of male self-esteem / John Guillory.