5. Milton’s Angelology: Intelligential Substance in Paradise Lost

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter ii
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction xiii
5. Notes and Abbreviations xxv
6. 1. The University Years: Milton and Seventeenth- Century Aristotelianism at Cambridge 1
7. 2. Milton’s Metaphysic and Linguistic Practice in Paradise Lost 40
8. 3. Milton’s Early Poems: The Agon Between Plato and Aristotle 81
9. 4. Milton on the Soul 113
10. 5. Milton’s Angelology: Intelligential Substance in Paradise Lost 158
11. 6. From Angels to the Almighty: Accommodation and the Problem of Narrative Intelligibility 196
12. 7. Prime Matter, Subject of Chaos 231
13. Conclusion 280
14. Notes 285
15. Bibliography 347
16. Index 393