Milton's modernities: poetry, philosophy, and history from the seventeenth century to the present

Introduction: Satan or Samson? The question of Milton and modernity / Patrick Fadely and Feisal G. Mohamed

Periodizing Milton : in Two Sallies / James Nohrnberg

"The mind is its own place" : Lucretian moral philosophy in Paradise lost / Jessie Hock

Learning from history : empiricism, likeness, and liberty in Paradise lost, Books 11-12 / Ryan Netzley

Divine violence and the messianic possibilities of Samson Agonistes / Jennifer Tole

Constituent providence and antinomian obedience : monistic stories in Spinoza's Ethics and Milton's Paradise lost / Christopher Kendrick

Miltonic mind / Sanford Budick

Milton's sublime Judaism and Hegel's Religion der Erhabenheit : the ends of typology and the impossibility of Christianity / Russ Leo

Milton's tacitist sovereignty / Feisal G. Mohamed

"A secular bird ages" : Samson Agonistes as a tragic reaction against modernity / Lee Morrissey

Insideoutput : Milton's inspiration / Gordon Teskey

Tablet for the God of Israel : Robert Medley's 1979 Samson Agonistes / Wendy Furman-Adams

Afterword: Suddenly emergent Milton / Sharon Achinstein.