In 1967 Milton studies was divided into two camps: one claiming (per Blake and Shelley) that Milton was of the devil's party, the other claiming (per Addison an

Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin, first published in 1967, set a new standard for Milton criticism and established its author as one of the world's preeminent Mi

Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin argues here that Paradise Lost is a poem about how its readers came to be the way they are and therefore the fact of their divid

When Carolyn Weber set out to study Romantic literature at Oxford University, she didn't give much thought to God or spiritual matters—but over the course of

In recent years, the world of literary and cultural studies has been riven by a fierce debate between those who would transform interpretative work and those wh