... of chace.” Wantonness is an important concept for Hogarth, denoting the mental state of a spectator who encounters a beautiful object. Wantonness is also a touchstone in interpretive accounts of Paradise Lost , exemplifying on the level of language the mimetic problems involved in Milton’s representation...

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... blame, guilt,” but also “to accomplish, complete, bring to completion,” “to discharge or acquit oneself of (a task, etc.).” In book 7 of Milton’s Paradise Lost , verses 93–94 read: “and the work begun, how soon/Absolved.” How could Scheherazade be absolved, and for what? Of what could she absolve...

... : Harvard UP , 1989 . “ Longinus .” On Sublimity . Trans. Russell D.A. . Oxford : Clarendon , 1965 . Milton John . Paradise Lost. The Poems of John Milton . Ed. Carey John and Fowler Alastair . London : Longmans , 1968 . Monk Leland . Standard Deviations...

... term may serve as a switch point to explain the insistence on legal terminology in Johnson’s version of paradise lost. Isn’t it odd that the vanished Eden of formalist critical possibility is conjured twice by recourse...

... by the palimpsest to the supersessionary impulse, see Harris. 7 Paradise can only ever be a retrospective formation tied to the idea of loss. This is why Milton’s classic is called Paradise Lost . But this dream of a plenitudinous space is a fantasy: there is no such place as paradise. Even as partition...

...: Doubleday, 1957 . 668 . ____. Paradise Lost. John Milton: Complete Poems . 173 -469. Moran, Richard. Authority and Estrangement . Princeton: Princeton up, 2001 . More, Paul Elmore. Rev. of Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters, A Family Record, by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen...

... .” Beckingham and Hamilton 197 – 206 . ———. “ Prester John in West Africa .” Beckingham and Hamilton 207 – 11 . Beckingham Charles F. Hamilton Bernard , eds. Prester John, the Mongols, and the Ten Lost Tribes . Aldershot : Variorium , 1996 . Best Stephen Marcus Sharon...

.... Oxford: Oxford up, 1975. Lowenstein, David. “ ‘An Ambiguous Monster’: Representing Rebellion in Milton’s Polemics and Paradise Lost.” Huntington Library Quarterly 55 (1992): 295–314...

... , 1918 . Lingis Alphonso . Sensation: Intelligibility in Sensibility . Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Humanity , 2001 . Milton John . Paradise Lost . London : Samuel Holdsworth , 1841 . Olalquiaga Celeste . The Artificial Kingdom: A Treasury of the Kitsch Experience . New...

... of duplicity in which the fetishized commodities of an entire culture could be consumed.9 d fferences 31 When caught, kleptomaniacs sometimes expressed relief, as if delivered of an obsession. Others merely lamented the lost pleasure of their daily visits to the Bon Marche, Printemps, or Louvre. Many confessed...

... of polymorphous perversion arises from Freud’s under- standing of polymorphous perversion as preceding normative—that is, genital—sexuality; in this way, perversion comes to represent a sort of “paradise lost” that “normal sexuality” will try...

...—based on them” (37). John Milton’s astronomical considerations in Paradise Lost play with (if ultimately undo) sexual difference as an organizing principle when, staring at the starry firmament, Raphael instructs Adam: “other suns perhaps/ With their attendant moons thou wilt descry/Communicating male...

... undergoing surgery, but after her body had been modified by female hormones and electrolysis, Renee reflects en route to Casablanca, "I was like one of Milton's spirits in Paradise Lost: 'for spirits when they like can either sex assume or both' " (228). After the sex change operation, when she is briefly...

... (she has lost the round, not the fight), she immediately seeks to turn 30 Calling Yourself a Woman her pain to some account. Thus she acknowledges that Damien was the first "to show me, with a word, my place," even if In his mind [my place] was that oj the spectator, one oj those select seatsjrom which...

... symbolic level through the representation of China as a lost paradise of wholeness, stability, and harmony that invokes the lost inno- cence of childhood. The fi lm is suffused with nostalgia for this lost world of timeless serenity...

..., on the other, is that the former critics might identify the 1960s as a paradise lost, while the latter would identify the same decade as the fall of man. The difference between these radical and reactionary perspectives—a minor difference...

..., but the protagonist Sugita continues to write even after the genre has lost its appeal. His obsessive interest invites only scorn and ridicule from the literary establishment. Already a man whom the times have left behind, Sugita is a tired, white...

.... In many ways Lévinas’s vision is quite appealing and might even be seen to privilege a feminine version of ethicity (cf. Chalier). In constructing this ethical paradise lost and found in terms of the maternal body, having already...

... in Dickinson's poetry does not always inspire fear. Just as often a door may conceal an idealized scene of domestic comfort and plenitude. A Door just opened on a streetI-lost-was passing byAn instant's Width of Warmth disclosedAnd Wealth-and Company. The Door as instant shut-And 1I-lost-was passing byLost...