02062cam a2200301 i 4500 1842507280 TxAuBib 20250128120000.0 240903s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024040081 9781662602795 HRD 28.00 1662602790 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Reade, Orlando, author. What in me is dark [BOOK] : the revolutionary afterlife of Paradise lost / Orlando Reade. First U.S. edition. New York : Astra House, 2024. 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-242) and index. "What in Me Is Dark tells the unlikely story of how Milton’s epic poem came to haunt political struggles over the past four centuries, including the many different, unexpected, often contradictory ways in which it has been read, interpreted, and appropriated through time and across the world, and to revolutionary ends. The book focuses on twelve readers—including Malcolm X, Thomas Jefferson, George Eliot, Hannah Arendt, and C.L.R James—whose lives demonstrate extraordinary and disturbing influence on the modern age. Drawing from his own experiences teaching Paradise Lost in New Jersey prisons, English scholar Orlando Reade deftly investigates how the poem was read by people embedded in struggles against tyranny, slavery, colonialism, gender inequality, and capitalist exploitation. It is experimental nonfiction at its finest; rich literary analysis and social, cultural and political history are woven together to make a clarifying case for the undeniable impact of the poem.". 20250128. Milton, John 1608-1674 Paradise lost. Milton, John 1608-1674 Influence. Politics and literature.