Surprised by Sin

The Reader in Paradise Lost

By: Stanley Fish

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Paperback | 12 November 1997 | Edition Number 2

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In 1967 the world of Milton studies was divided into two armed camps, one proclaiming that Milton was of the devil's party, the other proclaiming that the poet's sympathies are obviously with God and the angels loyal to him. The achievement of Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin was to reconcile the two camps by subsuming their claims in a single overarching thesis: Paradise Lost is a poem about how its readers came to be the way they are and therefore the fact of their divided responses makes perfect sense. Thirty years later the issues raised in Surprised by Sin continue to set the agenda and drive debate.

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'Many think of Surprised by Sin as Stanley Fish's best book: not just provocative, but strategic, in directing attention to Milton's designs on his readers.' - Alastair Fowler, Times Literary Supllement

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Acknowledgements
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface
Not So Much a Teaching as an Intangling
The Milk of the Pure Word
Man's Polluting Sin
Standing Only: Christian Heroism
The Interpretative Choice
What Cause?: Faith and Reason
So God with Man Unites Appendixes
Notes on the Moral Unity of Paradise Lost
Discovery as Form in Paradise Lost
Index of Authors and Titles
Index of Subjects
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