{"product_id":"surprised-by-sin-the-reader-in-paradise-lost-second-edition-with-a-new-preface-9780674857476","title":"Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost, Second Edition with a New Preface","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1967 the world of Milton studies was divided into two armed camps: one proclaiming (in the tradition of Blake and Shelley) that Milton was of the devil's party with or without knowing it, the other proclaiming (in the tradition of Addison and C. S. Lewis) that the poet's sympathies are obviously with God and the angels loyal to him. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe achievement of Stanley Fish's \u003ci\u003eSurprised by Sin\u003c\/i\u003e was to reconcile the two camps by subsuming their claims in a single overarching thesis: \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e is a poem about how its readers came to be the way they are--that is, fallen--and the poem's lesson is proven on a reader's impulse every time he or she finds a devilish action attractive or a godly action dismaying. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFish's argument reshaped the face of Milton studies; thirty years later the issues raised in \u003ci\u003eSurprised by Sin\u003c\/i\u003e continue to set the agenda and drive debate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFish, Stanley:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Stanley Fish is Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law at Florida International University. His many books include \u003ci\u003eThere's No Such Thing as Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, Too\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50412787892498,"sku":"9780674857476","price":57.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e1e6b1b7-5214-472a-8ec0-3c81196b01e8.jpg?v=1729328085","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/surprised-by-sin-the-reader-in-paradise-lost-second-edition-with-a-new-preface-9780674857476","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}