Claire Colebrook is Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

'The starting point of this bold and ambitious book is Milton's hostility to 'system'.  Countering the Romantic view that Milton wrote 'in fetters', Claire Colebrook recovers the dynamic quality, the vitalism, of his prose and poetry, which locates the divine in many different and shifting forms, and she defends this recovery as a necessary counter-response to a tradition of literary criticism that would, mistakenly, rescue Milton from his own theodicy.  But more than this, Colebrook makes an eloquent and original defence of the relevance of Milton today ... This is a major contribution to Milton studies and the history of critical thought.' - Jennifer Richards, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

• Introduction: Life, Economy, Evil; 1. Milton's History of Reason and Church Government; 2. Capital Time, Production and Generation; 3. Allegory, Analogy and the Form of the World; 4. Gender and Contrariety; 5. History, Becoming and Reason; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Claire Colebrook is Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

'The starting point of this bold and ambitious book is Milton's hostility to 'system'.  Countering the Romantic view that Milton wrote 'in fetters', Claire Colebrook recovers the dynamic quality, the vitalism, of his prose and poetry, which locates the divine in many different and shifting forms, and she defends this recovery as a necessary counter-response to a tradition of literary criticism that would, mistakenly, rescue Milton from his own theodicy.  But more than this, Colebrook makes an eloquent and original defence of the relevance of Milton today ... This is a major contribution to Milton studies and the history of critical thought.' - Jennifer Richards, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

• Introduction: Life, Economy, Evil; 1. Milton's History of Reason and Church Government; 2. Capital Time, Production and Generation; 3. Allegory, Analogy and the Form of the World; 4. Gender and Contrariety; 5. History, Becoming and Reason; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Claire Colebrook is Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

'The starting point of this bold and ambitious book is Milton's hostility to 'system'.  Countering the Romantic view that Milton wrote 'in fetters', Claire Colebrook recovers the dynamic quality, the vitalism, of his prose and poetry, which locates the divine in many different and shifting forms, and she defends this recovery as a necessary counter-response to a tradition of literary criticism that would, mistakenly, rescue Milton from his own theodicy.  But more than this, Colebrook makes an eloquent and original defence of the relevance of Milton today ... This is a major contribution to Milton studies and the history of critical thought.' - Jennifer Richards, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

• Introduction: Life, Economy, Evil; 1. Milton's History of Reason and Church Government; 2. Capital Time, Production and Generation; 3. Allegory, Analogy and the Form of the World; 4. Gender and Contrariety; 5. History, Becoming and Reason; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.