Karen Edwards offers a fresh view of Paradise Lost, in which Milton is shown to represent Eden's plants and animals in the light of the century's new, scientific natural history as it emerged in the work of his contemporaries including Robert Boyle, Thomas Browne and John Evelyn.
Karen Edwards offers a fresh view of Paradise Lost, in which Milton is shown to represent Eden's plants and animals in the light of the century's new, scientific natural history as it emerged in the work of his contemporaries including Robert Boyle, Thomas Browne and John Evelyn.
Introduction Part I. Re-reading the Book of the World: 1. Corrupting experience: Satan and Eve 2. Experimentalists and the book of the world 3. The place of experimental reading Part II. Reforming Animals: 4. Milton's complicated serpents 5. New uses for monstrous lore 6. From rarities to representatives 7. Rehabilitating the political animal Part III. Transplanting the Garden. 8. Naming and not naming 9. Botanical discretion 10. Flourishing colors 11. The balm of life Bibliography Index.
Introduction Part I. Re-reading the Book of the World: 1. Corrupting experience: Satan and Eve 2. Experimentalists and the book of the world 3. The place of experimental reading Part II. Reforming Animals: 4. Milton's complicated serpents 5. New uses for monstrous lore 6. From rarities to representatives 7. Rehabilitating the political animal Part III. Transplanting the Garden. 8. Naming and not naming 9. Botanical discretion 10. Flourishing colors 11. The balm of life Bibliography Index.
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