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What in Me Is Dark by Orlando Reade
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Dec 10, 2024 | ISBN 9781662602795

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Praise

“[An] excellent debut study . . .  This edifying analysis testifies to the enduring power of literature.”
Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Reade makes an eloquent case for the continuing vitality of Paradise Lost . . . Concise and lively.”
Andrea Brady, Times Literary Supplement

“[What in Me Is Dark is a] thoughtful, wide-ranging and astute book . . . As a response to such a complex and equivocal historical figure neither hagiography nor iconoclasm seems quite adequate, and Reade’s excellent book strikes a difficult and deft balance between the two.”
Joe Moshenska, The Guardian

“A fresh consideration of the long and surprising afterlife of John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost . . . Edifying, wide-ranging cultural criticism.”
Kirkus Reviews

“This is a rare and extraordinary book. In tracing the surprising revolutionary legacy of Milton’s epic, Reade has himself produced a liberatory text. This is not only a book for Milton scholars, but anyone invested in the poetics of freedom struggle.”
Natasha Lennard, author of Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life

“Wonderfully written, intelligent and moving. Orlando Reade follows the enduring conversation between Milton’s Paradise Lost and revolutionaries across the centuries. Reade reminds us that literature is action, that epic poetry has the power to liberate minds, pens, and voices. Behind every revolution is a song. As it turns out, so often that song has been Paradise Lost.”
Leah Redmond Chang, author of Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

“Orlando Reade writes with exhilarating style, luminous clarity, and irreverent wit. Each page of What in Me Is Dark is aflame with ideas—on the relation between politics and evil, abolition and poetry—and with the sublimity of Milton’s verse, deftly brought alive. Earth may be hell, but fallen angels, as Reade shows, have been our unexpected guides toward freedom and justice.”
Anna Della Subin, author of Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine

“With many new discoveries and insights, Orlando Reade tells the story of how Milton’s Paradise Lost has inspired crucial figures in literature and politics. Reade writes a new history of liberty, as he shows how Milton has provided an influential and enduring resource for a better world, one for which we still strive.”
Nigel Smith, Princeton University, author of Is Milton Better than Shakespeare?

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