SLE Salon: Orlando Reade Explores How Paradise Lost Has Influenced Political Struggles and Revolutionary Movements over the Past 400 Years

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.

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FREE copies of Orlando Reade's book, What in Me is Dark, for the first  students that show up!