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Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Found: The New Milton Criticism
Article first published online: 21 DEC 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2005.00176.x
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Herman, P. C. (2005), Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Found: The New Milton Criticism. Literature Compass, 2: **. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2005.00176.x
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- Issue published online: 21 DEC 2005
- Article first published online: 21 DEC 2005
- Literature Compass 2 (2005) RE 176, 1–26
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Abstract
This article describes the current state of Milton studies. In the first part, I outline the dominant paradigm – i.e., that Milton is a poet of certainty and orthodoxy – showing how this paradigm arose and how it continues to shape a great deal of Milton scholarship. In the second part, I outline how a New Milton Criticism is starting to take shape, one which embraces indeterminacy and incertitude.