Blaine Greteman is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa. A Rhodes Scholar and a former contributor to Time magazine, he continues to write for both scholarly and popular publications, including Milton Quarterly, Renaissance Quarterly, ELH, Philological Quarterly, and The Review of English Studies. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

'Specialists will find rich rewards in the overall thesis about the role of childhood in the development of political voice. Advanced undergraduates will most appreciate Greteman's insightful readings of Milton's Mask and Paradise Lost. Greteman provides extensive endnotes with full bibliographical details. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' Blaine Greteman, Choice

• Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: childish things; Part I. The Growth of Consent and Disciplining of Childhood in Early Modern England: 1. Coming of age on stage: Jonson's epicoene and the politics of childhood in early Stuart England; 2. Children, literature, and the problem of consent; 3. Contract's children: Thomas Hobbes and the culture of subjection; Part II. Milton and the Children of Liberty: 4. 'Perplex't paths': youth and authority in Milton's early work; 5. 'Children of reviving libertie': the radical politics of Milton's pedagogy; 6. 'Youthful beauty': infancy and adulthood among the angels of Paradise Lost; 7. Children of paradise; Epilogue: 'children gathering pebbles on the shore'.

Blaine Greteman is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa. A Rhodes Scholar and a former contributor to Time magazine, he continues to write for both scholarly and popular publications, including Milton Quarterly, Renaissance Quarterly, ELH, Philological Quarterly, and The Review of English Studies. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

'Specialists will find rich rewards in the overall thesis about the role of childhood in the development of political voice. Advanced undergraduates will most appreciate Greteman's insightful readings of Milton's Mask and Paradise Lost. Greteman provides extensive endnotes with full bibliographical details. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' Blaine Greteman, Choice

• Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: childish things; Part I. The Growth of Consent and Disciplining of Childhood in Early Modern England: 1. Coming of age on stage: Jonson's epicoene and the politics of childhood in early Stuart England; 2. Children, literature, and the problem of consent; 3. Contract's children: Thomas Hobbes and the culture of subjection; Part II. Milton and the Children of Liberty: 4. 'Perplex't paths': youth and authority in Milton's early work; 5. 'Children of reviving libertie': the radical politics of Milton's pedagogy; 6. 'Youthful beauty': infancy and adulthood among the angels of Paradise Lost; 7. Children of paradise; Epilogue: 'children gathering pebbles on the shore'.

Blaine Greteman is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa. A Rhodes Scholar and a former contributor to Time magazine, he continues to write for both scholarly and popular publications, including Milton Quarterly, Renaissance Quarterly, ELH, Philological Quarterly, and The Review of English Studies. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

'Specialists will find rich rewards in the overall thesis about the role of childhood in the development of political voice. Advanced undergraduates will most appreciate Greteman's insightful readings of Milton's Mask and Paradise Lost. Greteman provides extensive endnotes with full bibliographical details. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' Blaine Greteman, Choice

• Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: childish things; Part I. The Growth of Consent and Disciplining of Childhood in Early Modern England: 1. Coming of age on stage: Jonson's epicoene and the politics of childhood in early Stuart England; 2. Children, literature, and the problem of consent; 3. Contract's children: Thomas Hobbes and the culture of subjection; Part II. Milton and the Children of Liberty: 4. 'Perplex't paths': youth and authority in Milton's early work; 5. 'Children of reviving libertie': the radical politics of Milton's pedagogy; 6. 'Youthful beauty': infancy and adulthood among the angels of Paradise Lost; 7. Children of paradise; Epilogue: 'children gathering pebbles on the shore'.