{"product_id":"9780674857476-surprised-by-sin-2e","title":"Surprised by Sin","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Reader in Paradise Lost, Second Edition with a New Preface. In 1967 Milton studies was divided into two camps: one claiming (per Blake and Shelley) that Milton was of the devil’s party, the other claiming (per Addison and C. S. Lewis) that the poet’s sympathies were obviously with God and his loyal angels. Fish has reconciled the two camps by subsuming their claims in a single overarching thesis. \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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40867699949665,"sku":"9780674857476","price":61.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/26a173b2d2be20331f71afaeae66c44b.png?v=1686770139","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780674857476-surprised-by-sin-2e","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}