Title
The Empty Garden: The Subject of Late Milton (A Milton Studies Monograph),Used
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The Empty Garden draws a portrait of Milton as a cultural and religious critic who, in his latest and greatest poems, wrote narratives that illustrate the proper relationships among the individual, the community, and God. Rushdy argues that the political theory implicit in these relationships arises from Milton's own drive for self knowledge, a kind of knowledge that gives the individual freedom to act in accordance with his or her own understanding of God's will rather than the state's. In essence, Rushdy redefines Milton's creative spirit in a way that successfully encompasses his poetic, political, and religious careers.By contrasting the theories of Louis Althusser, Jacques Lacan, and Thomas Hobbes on selfknowledge with Milton's narratological and diachronic theory, Rushdy illustrates how Milton sees the subject in a dynamic and changing relationship with the natural and supernatural worlds.The Empty Garden demonstrates how the narrative of Paradise Regained depicts a Jesus who gains selfknowledge through meditation, uses that knowledge to defeat Satan, and forms a new culture for Israel. Jesus' life becomes an object of interpretation for the characters within the poem (as well as for the poem's readers), and Jesus and Satan produce radically different interpretations that reflect the differences between the old and new cultures.Critics have acknowledged that Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, published in one volume in 1671, are to be read as two parts of a whole, and Rushdy has an exciting way of defining the volume as Milton's final exploration of a political idea. He develops useful points of comparison and contrast between the works to show how Jesus and Samson become different kinds of subjects of God and state.The Empty Garden concludes with a reading of and implicit dialogue between Milton and Hobbes that shows that Milton's last original poetic achievement is as involved in issues of politics the state as site of potential subjectivity or subjection as ever he was during the heyday of his prose contributions.
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