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Author(s): Neil Forsyth
ISBN(s): 9780691099965, 0691099960
Edition: Hardcover
File Details: PDF, 2.31 MB
Year: 2002
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0691099960 

ISBN 13: 9780691099965

Author: Neil Forsyth

The Satan of Paradise Lost has fascinated generations of readers. This book attempts to explain how and why Milton’s Satan is so seductive. It reasserts the importance of Satan against those who would minimize the poem’s sympathy for the devil and thereby make Milton orthodox. Neil Forsyth argues that William Blake got it right when he called Milton a true poet because he was “of the Devils party” even though he set out “to justify the ways of God to men.” In seeking to learn why Satan is so alluring, Forsyth ranges over diverse topics–from the origins of evil and the relevance of witchcraft to the status of the poetic narrator, the epic tradition, the nature of love between the sexes, and seventeenth-century astronomy. He considers each of these as Milton introduces them: as Satanic subjects. Satan emerges as the main challenge to Christian belief. It is Satan who questions and wonders and denounces. He is the great doubter who gives voice to many of the arguments that Christianity has provoked from within and without. And by rooting his Satanic reading of Paradise Lost in Biblical and other sources, Forsyth retrieves not only an attractive and heroic Satan but a Milton whose heretical energies are embodied in a Satanic character with a life of his own.

Table of contents: 

(1) “Too full of the Devill”
(2) “God is not the devil”
(3) The Narrative Theology of “therefore”
(4) “The most heroic subject that ever was chosen”
1. A BRIEF HISTORY OF SATAN
(1) The Old Enemy
(2) Ancient Myth and Epic
(3) Hesiod
(4) Apocalypses
(5) The satan
(6) The New Testament
(7) The Early Church
(8) Heresy
(9) Medieval Heresy
(10) Old English Genesis to Chaucer
(11) Satan’s Rebellion
(12) Warfare and Imperialism
(13) Elizabethan Drama
(14) Politics
(15) The Miltonic Moment
16) Subversive Satan
(17) Critical Controversies
2. THE EPIC VOICE
(1) Seeing through Satan
(2) Hope and Despair
(3) “Dark designs”
(4) “Devils into Dwarfs”
(5) The Critical Need for the Narrator
(6) Epic Similes
(7) Erring
(8) Parliamentary Devils
3. FOLLOW THE LEADER
(1) Chaos
(2) Approaching Paradise
(3) Satan’s Entry into Paradise
(4) Paradise
(5) Sex
4. “MY SELF AM HELL”
(1) Niphates
(2) Faustus and the Abyss
(3) God in Satan
(4) Hell in Heaven
(5) Witchcraft
5. SATAN’S REBELLION
(1) Rebellion in Hesiod
(2) God’s Creative Word
(3) Satan’s Theology
(4) Sources of Satan’s motive
(5) Hebrews
(6) Psalm 2
6. THE LANGUAGE OF “EVIL”
(1) Classical versus Christian
(2) Hate in Heaven
(3) The “Problem of Evil”
(4) Satan and Ancient Evils
(5) Allecto: Hell’s Fury
(6) The Darkness of Hell
(7) “God created evil”
(8) The Language of Sin
(9) Evil Eve
(10) Openings
(11) “Perverse”
(12) Odium Dei
7. OF MANS FIRST DIS
(1) Dis—
(2) Satan’s “dark suggestions”
(3) Quibbles
(4) Vergil
(5) Ovid
(6) Dante
(7) Difference
8. HOMER IN MILTON: THE ATTENDANCE MOTIF AND THE GRACES
9. SATAN TEMPTER
(1) Intercourse
(2) “Stupidly good”
(3) Sexual Serpents
(4) Discourse
(5) The Seductive Text
(6) Commentators
(7) “What delight”
(8) Satan’s Sewers
(9) Satanic Verses
10. “IF THEY WILL HEAR”
11. AT THE SIGN OF THE DOVE AND SERPENT
(1) Irenaeus
(2) The Wisdom of the Serpent
(3) Image
(4) The Brazen Serpent
(5) The Meaning of History
(6) Christ and Serpent
12. “FULL OF DOUBT I STAND”: THE STRUCTURES OF PARADISE LOST
CONCLUSION: SIGNS PORTENTOUS

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