Notes on the Text

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Notes on the Text ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Contingency, Probability, and Free Will 13
7. 2. Milton’s Classical Rhetoricians 33
8. 3. Milton’s Forerunners: Renaissance Rhetoric 51
9. 4. Milton’s Concept of Rhetoric 75
10. 5. The Voice of God: Rhetoric and Religion 97
11. 6. The Rhetoric of Heaven 122
12. 7. Satan and Rhetoric 151
13. 8. The Rhetoric of Hell 174
14. 9. Temptation and the Rhetoric of Paradise 197
15. 10. Descending from Heaven: Anthropopathia and the Rhetoric of Paradise 222
16. Conclusion 241
17. Notes 255
18. Bibliography 287
19. Glossary of Rhetorical Figures and Tropes 303
20. Index 307