Acknowledgements ixIntroduction 1Part One Life 31 The City of London 52 Cambridge 153 Preparation 284 Travels 425 The Civil War 486 The Cromwellian Republic 697 The Restoration 988 Paradise Lost 1049 Milton's Last Years and Paradise Regained 130Part Two Lives After Death 13910 The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 14111 The Romantics and the Victorians 14712 The Twentieth Century 15713 Critical Theory 167Abbreviations and Referencing 198Bibliography 199Index 206
Richard Bradford is Research Professor of English, University of Ulster, UK, and Visiting Professor, Avignon University, France. He has held academic posts at Oxford University, the University of Wales, and Trinity College, Dublin. His 36 books include 10 literary biographies, most recently on Hemingway, Orwell and Patricia Highsmith. His specialised volumes cover topics such as eighteenth century criticism, the history of English poetry, the contemporary novel, literary aesthetics, stylistics, and literary theory. He is Director of the Ulster Literary Biography Research Centre and General Editor of this 'The Life of the Author' series.