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Preface | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
"Too full of the Devill" | p. 1 |
"God is not the devil" | p. 8 |
The Narrative Theology of "therefore" | p. 12 |
"The most heroic subject that ever was chosen" | p. 18 |
A Brief History of Satan | p. 24 |
The Old Enemy | p. 25 |
Ancient Myth and Epic | p. 28 |
Hesiod | p. 30 |
Apocalypses | p. 35 |
The satan | p. 37 |
The New Testament | p. 39 |
The Early Church | p. 43 |
Heresy | p. 45 |
Medieval Heresy | p. 49 |
Old English Genesis to Chaucer | p. 50 |
Satan's Rebellion | p. 54 |
Warfare and Imperialism | p. 56 |
Elizabethan Drama | p. 60 |
Politics | p. 62 |
The Miltonic Moment | p. 64 |
Subversive Satan | p. 66 |
Critical Controversies | p. 69 |
The Epic Voice | p. 77 |
Seeing through Satan | p. 77 |
Hope and Despair | p. 81 |
"Dark designs" | p. 86 |
"Devils into Dwarfs" | p. 87 |
The Critical Need for the Narrator | p. 90 |
Epic Similes | p. 100 |
Erring | p. 105 |
Parliamentary Devils | p. 108 |
Follow the Leader | p. 114 |
Chaos | p. 115 |
Approaching Paradise | p. 124 |
Satan's Entry into Paradise | p. 129 |
Paradise | p. 129 |
Sex | p. 134 |
"Myself Am Hell" | p. 147 |
Niphates | p. 148 |
Faustus and the Abyss | p. 152 |
God in Satan | p. 155 |
Hell in Heaven | p. 157 |
Witchcraft | p. 160 |
Satan's Rebellion | p. 167 |
Rebellion in Hesiod | p. 170 |
God's Creative Word | p. 171 |
Satan's Theology | p. 176 |
Sources of Satan's motive | p. 180 |
Hebrews | p. 183 |
Psalm 2 | p. 185 |
The Language of "Evil" | p. 188 |
Classical versus Christian | p. 188 |
Hate in Heaven | p. 190 |
The "Problem of Evil" | p. 192 |
Satan and Ancient Evils | p. 195 |
Allecto: Hell's Fury | p. 196 |
The Darkness of Hell | p. 201 |
"God created evil" | p. 204 |
The Language of Sin | p. 206 |
Evil Eve | p. 207 |
Openings | p. 209 |
"Perverse" | p. 212 |
Odium Dei | p. 214 |
Of Mans First Dis | p. 217 |
Dis-- | p. 218 |
Satan's "dark suggestions" | p. 221 |
Quibbles | p. 224 |
Vergil | p. 228 |
Ovid | p. 229 |
Dante | p. 233 |
Difference | p. 235 |
Homer in Milton: The Attendance Motif and the Graces | p. 239 |
Satan Tempter | p. 259 |
Intercourse | p. 259 |
"Stupidly good" | p. 261 |
Sexual Serpents | p. 263 |
Discourse | p. 265 |
The Seductive Text | p. 268 |
Commentators | p. 272 |
"What delight" | p. 277 |
Satan's Sewers | p. 280 |
Satanic Verses | p. 282 |
"If They Will Hear" | p. 285 |
At the Sign of the Dove and the Serpent | p. 301 |
Irenaeus | p. 303 |
The Wisdom of the Serpent | p. 304 |
Image | p. 305 |
The Brazen Serpent | p. 308 |
The Meaning of History | p. 309 |
Christ and Serpent | p. 311 |
"full of doubt istand" : the structures of paradiselost | p. 314 |
conclusion: signsportentous | p. 329 |
Apocalypse | p. 329 |
"Disastrous twilight" | p. 332 |
Editors | p. 338 |
Sun-Son | p. 341 |
Reading Signs | p. 342 |
"Good with bad expect to hear" | p. 344 |
Bibliography | p. 349 |
Index | p. 371 |
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