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Sinister Aesthetics; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction: Representing Evil in Early Modern England; Aesthetics and Morality; Sinister Aesthetics; The Problem of Evil; Chapter Overview; Notes; 2 "Dreadful Harmony": The Poetics of Evil in Sidney, Tasso, and Spenser; Introduction: Literary Theory and Poetic Practice; Monsters and Medicine: Pleasure and Morality in The Defence of Poesy; "The Contraries of These Delights": Curiositas and Chiaroscuro in Augustine; Chimeras and Concordia Discors: Tasso's Augustinian Aesthetics
"That Detestable Sight Him Much Amazde": Aesthetics of Filth in The Faerie Queene Book 1"Pleasant Sin": Beauty and Evil in the Bower of Bliss; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Honeyed Toads: Sinister Aesthetics in Richard III; Introduction: Staging Evil; Elf-Marks and Virtuous Visors: The Epistemological Problem of Richard; Palpable Devices; Playing the Devil: The Theatricality of Evil; Descanting on Deformity; The "Nest of Spicery" and the Limits of Seduction; Poetic Invective and Demonic Identity; Providential Narratives and the Persistence of the Sinister; Conclusion; Notes
4 Monsters and the Pleasures of Divine Justice in English Popular Print, 1560-1675Introduction: Providential Punishments; Ballads, Pamphlets, and Sermons; Pleasure and Terror in Monster Ballads and Pamphlets; Monsters and Divine Wrath in Early Modern Sermons; Aesthetic Responsibility and the Problem of Evil; The Teratogenic God; Cultivating Sinister Piety; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Satanic Sensibilities in Paradise Lost; Introduction: "Milton the Poet" and "Milton the Moralist"; "Strength from Truth Divided": Satan and the Normative; "Evil Be Thou My Good": Moral Perversity
"This Horror Will Grow Mild": Aesthetic Perversity"Materials Dark and Crude": Sinister Pleasure and Poesis; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Milton's Sinister God: Poetic Justice and Chiaroscuro in Paradise Lost; Introduction: God as Sinister Allegorist; Malum Poenae and "Enthusiastick Terror"; "A Universe of Death": God's Infernal Aesthetic; "Grateful Vicissitude": Divine Chiaroscuro and the War in Heaven; "Odious Truth": The Degradation of Satan and the Education of Adam; Conclusion; Notes; 7 Epilogue: The Sinister After Milton; Notes; Bibliography; Primary Sources (up to 1700); Secondary Sources (after 1700)Index.
"That Detestable Sight Him Much Amazde": Aesthetics of Filth in The Faerie Queene Book 1"Pleasant Sin": Beauty and Evil in the Bower of Bliss; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Honeyed Toads: Sinister Aesthetics in Richard III; Introduction: Staging Evil; Elf-Marks and Virtuous Visors: The Epistemological Problem of Richard; Palpable Devices; Playing the Devil: The Theatricality of Evil; Descanting on Deformity; The "Nest of Spicery" and the Limits of Seduction; Poetic Invective and Demonic Identity; Providential Narratives and the Persistence of the Sinister; Conclusion; Notes
4 Monsters and the Pleasures of Divine Justice in English Popular Print, 1560-1675Introduction: Providential Punishments; Ballads, Pamphlets, and Sermons; Pleasure and Terror in Monster Ballads and Pamphlets; Monsters and Divine Wrath in Early Modern Sermons; Aesthetic Responsibility and the Problem of Evil; The Teratogenic God; Cultivating Sinister Piety; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Satanic Sensibilities in Paradise Lost; Introduction: "Milton the Poet" and "Milton the Moralist"; "Strength from Truth Divided": Satan and the Normative; "Evil Be Thou My Good": Moral Perversity
"This Horror Will Grow Mild": Aesthetic Perversity"Materials Dark and Crude": Sinister Pleasure and Poesis; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Milton's Sinister God: Poetic Justice and Chiaroscuro in Paradise Lost; Introduction: God as Sinister Allegorist; Malum Poenae and "Enthusiastick Terror"; "A Universe of Death": God's Infernal Aesthetic; "Grateful Vicissitude": Divine Chiaroscuro and the War in Heaven; "Odious Truth": The Degradation of Satan and the Education of Adam; Conclusion; Notes; 7 Epilogue: The Sinister After Milton; Notes; Bibliography; Primary Sources (up to 1700); Secondary Sources (after 1700)Index.