Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Mechanical Life: Descartes, Hobbes, and the Implications of Mechanism 19
6. 2. The Life of the Soul: The Cambridge Reaction 50
7. 3. Material Life: Milton's Animist Materialism 79
8. 4. Milton and Anne Conway 111
9. 5. Milton's True Poem and the Substance of Epic Angels 137
10. 6. Sin and Death: The Substance of Allegory 168
11. 7. To Shadowy Types from Truth: Satan's Mechanist Descent 194
12. 8. "After Another Method": Sacred War as Philosophical Battle 223
13. Epilogue 244
14. Index 257
15. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 265