Surprised by Sin

The Reader in Paradise Lost, Second Edition

With a New Preface by the Author

Stanley Fish

  • Winner of the Milton Society of America's Hanford Award for Best Book, 1997

Acknowledgements

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface

1. Not So Much a Teaching as an Intangling

2. The Milk of the Pure Word

3. Man's Polluting Sin

4. Standing Only: Christian Heroism

5. The Interpretative Choice

6. What Cause?: Faith and Reason

7. So God with Man Unites

Appendixes

Notes on the Moral Unity of Paradise Lost

Discovery as Form in Paradise Lost

Index of Authors and Titles

Index of Subjects

  • Cover: Surprised by Sin
  • A photo of the author

Stanley Fish is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His many books include There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing Too.