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Queer 'Paradise Lost': Reproduction, Gender, And Sexuality, Emily R. Kolpien
Queer 'Paradise Lost': Reproduction, Gender, And Sexuality, Emily R. Kolpien
Scripps Senior Theses
In the span of this thesis, I investigate the queer nature of John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, and argue that in spite of the biblical subject matter it is in fact a text filled with instances of queer transgression. I focus on preexisting feminist critiques of Milton in my introduction in order to ground myself within the academic field, and in order to illustrate how I will be branching out from it. In my first chapter, I discuss the queered nature of the poem’s landscapes, such as Chaos and Hell, and the specifically queer and masculine nature of …