ENGL 220: Milton
Lecture 14 - Paradise Lost, Book IV. This lecture examines Book Four's depiction of Adam and Eve and the sexual politics of life in Eden. Seventeenth-century political theory, particularly the work of Thomas Hobbes, is considered with a focus on then-contemporary theories of the structure and government of the first human societies. Critical perspectives on what have variously been proposed as sexist and feminist elements of Milton's Eden are surveyed. Milton's struggle with the problem of depicting an unfallen world to a fallen audience is closely detailed. The lecture concludes with a study of Rembrandt's 1638 drawing, "Adam and Eve." (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 14 - Paradise Lost, Book IV |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Disimiles in "Paradise Lost": Fallen Representation of Unfallen-ness |
| [00:10:16] | 2. Politics and Seventeenth-Century Descriptions of Adam and Eve |
| [00:15:45] | 3. Milton's Political Philosophy |
| [00:26:29] | 4. What Made Adam and Eve Unequal? |
| References |
| Lecture 14 - Paradise Lost, Book IV Instructor: Professor John Rogers. "Adam and Eve" by Rembrandt [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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