Surprised by Sin (Second edition)

The Reader in Paradise Lost

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by Stanley Fish

Harvard University Press

Due/Published March 1998, 384 pages, paper

ISBN 067485747X

With a new preface by the author (S98)

Thirty years after it was first published, here is Fish's classic study of the role of reader response in Milton's Paradise Lost. In a new preface, Fish revisits the thesis of Surprised by Sin and considers the challenges offered by spot-structuralism, new historicism, and political criticism. The last line in the description from Harvard: "He does not repent."