I started planning this book, which became my PhD Thesis, about 5 years ago. It didn't turn out to be exactly what I expected - it's a mashup of Paradise Lost scholarship and a comparative history of the influence Milton's Satan had on politics, art, literature, revolution and social progress over several centuries. It's a response to the bizarrely conservative academic readings of Paradise Lost that continue to be taught in many universities. It's a summary of historical ...
Holy Blasphemy
Heretical musings on religion and culture from a literary scholar
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I'm the author of Gods of Myth and Man and Evil Be My Good. I have a PhD in comparative literature, and am interested in how mythological and religious symbolism influences contemporary pop culture.
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