Index

• Abbate, Carolyn, 83

• Abdiel, 10, 18, 113

• Abel, 53

• Achinstein, Sharon, 141, 144, 150

• Adam, 3, 16, 29, 41, 46, 56, 308n80; creation of, 32–33, 302n15; delight in life by, 41–42; desire for knowledge by, 43–44; Eve vs., 23–25, 37; Fall of, 23–25, 32, 52–53; feelings of, 47–48, 52–53; feelings of aliveness of, 32, 42–44, 55; freedom of, 252; God and, 174–75, 177–78; horror of at Abel’s death, 53–54; on life and death, 51–52; and Michael, 74–75, 300n78; Raphael’s narration to, 6–7, 19; vitality of, 42–44, 50. See also Adam and Eve; awakening, Adam’s

• Adam and Eve, 128, 179, 291n5; expulsion from Eden, 134, 179–80, 320n22; hospitality of, 222–23, 226–27, 338n3, 343n19, 347n49; worship by, 166–74

• “Adam in Paradise” (Ortega), 29

• Adamus Exul (Grotius), 24

• Addison, Joseph, 125, 231–34

• Admonition controversy, 205

• Ad Patrem, 64, 81

• Aeneid (Virgil), 345n38; hospitality scenes in, 223, 338n3, 345n37; xenia in, 215–21

• African Americans, 289; discrimination against, 263–64; effects of racism on, 265, 267–68; Milton’s influence in newspapers of, 282–84; Milton’s influence on women writers, 259–60, 262–64, 273; writing by, 260–61, 264, 355n6

• agency: authorial, 60, 62, 78; of black women, 282; human vs. divine, 201–02, 204–06; of prophet-poets, 67

• angels, 3, 115, 319n12; fallen, 245–47, 274, 280; God and, 22, 110; as guardians of Eden, 128–32; narratives of, 4–6, 8, 294n10; rebel, 22, 112–13; Satan and, 112–13, 130–31

• Animadversions, 325n12

• animals, 41, 44–45, 50–51

• Anthropology (Kant), 47–48

• antiepiscopal tracts, 143

• antinomianism, 188, 190, 201

• apocalypse, 60

• Apology (1642), 20–21

• Apology for Smectymnuus, An, 282, 357n53

• Aquinas, Thomas, 23, 39, 41, 236, 305n38

• Areopagitica, 21, 68, 125, 146, 322n46, 350n17; Catholics excluded from religious toleration in, 143–44, 149; influence of, 325n13; internal conflicts of, 144–45, 150–51, 153; liberal vs. illiberal readings of, 144–45; other toleration tracts and, 150–53; on postpublication censorship, 149–50

• Aristotle, 4–5, 6–7, 18–19, 87, 294n11

• Arminianism, 188–91, 199, 202, 336n26

• Arminius, Jacob, 189

• Asad, Talal, 157, 159

• “At a Solemn Music,” 86, 93

• Augustine, 235, 237, 292n3, 293n4; on Adam and Eve, 33, 291n5, 308n80; and animals, 50–51; on causation, 4–7, 14–15, 18–19; on evil, 13, 26, 321n33; on human life, 44; Milton and, 297n36, 307n69; on Satan, 14, 16–18

• Austern, Linda, 89

• awakening, Adam’s, 30–34, 37, 124–25, 304n28, 304n30, 309n94; birth of consciousness compared to, 46–47; description of, 47, 55–56; Eve’s vs., 34–36, 319n17; and life and death, 51–52, 54–56; reflexivity in, 41–42; tactility and, 38–39, 49

• Bacon, Francis, 87, 99, 103

• Bacon, Helen H., 220–21, 345n37, 346n40

• Bacon, J. R., 347n49

• baptism, 235

• Barbaras, Renaud, 54

• Baroni, Leonara: Milton’s praise for music and, 81–82, 87, 90, 103; as siren, 90–92, 105, 313n30

• Baxter, Richard, 188

• Belial, 245–47, 352n26

• Bible, 76; Adam given history through, 74–75; Milton and, 166–69, 184, 256, 346n45; popery as repudiation of individual right to read, 145–46, 152

• Blake, William, 5

• Bloom, Gina, 87, 98, 312n14

• body: in acts of worship, 170–72; disintegration of, 109, 112–14, 116, 118–23, 319n14, 319n18; effects of music on, 87; effects of sin on Satan’s, 122–23, 130–32; as instrument, 84–87, 89, 91, 99, 102–03

• Book of Common Prayer, 165–69, 331n8

• Brackley, Elizabeth, 96

• Braxton, Joanne, 265

• Bremmer, Jan M., 350n15

• Brooke, Lord, 146, 151–52, 154

• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 276

• calling, 202, 204–05

• Calvin, John, 87–88

• Calvinism, 202, 237

• Cartwright, Thomas, 205

• Casanova, José, 157–58

• Castiglione, Baldesar, 88–90

• Catholicism, 350n17; and Limbo, 236, 237–38; Milton’s anti-Catholicism, 231–32, 239, 242, 254–55; objections to, 152–53; popery and, 145–46, 152; and religious toleration, 141–44, 149

• causation: in angels’ narratives, 4, 11–13, 23, 25, 294n10; Aristotelian, 18–19, 294n11; Aristotle’s vs. Augustine’s, 6–7...