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.
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