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What in Me Is Dark
The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost
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A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘Lively and humane… Reade’s enthusiasm and curiosity are winning’GUARDIAN Summoned in Haiti’s struggle against colonial rule, read in prison by the young Malcolm X, and reimagined by Virginia Woolf Orlando Reade shows the many different, surprising, and often contradictory...
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A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
‘Lively and humane… Reade’s enthusiasm and curiosity are winning’
GUARDIAN
Summoned in Haiti’s struggle against colonial rule, read in prison by the young Malcolm X, and reimagined by Virginia Woolf
Orlando Reade shows the many different, surprising, and often contradictory ways in which Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost has been read across centuries and continents.
Boldly original, lively, and far-reaching, What in Me is Dark is the story of how a work of literature born in the ashes of a failed revolution became an indelible part of the modern imagination.
Reade guides us through the epic, exploring how Milton came to write its dark and dazzling poetry, and offers us a new account of its radical, ever-evolving legacy.
‘Clever, wide-ranging…witty and sardonic’
NEW STATESMAN
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529923261
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 September 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 272
About the Author
Orlando Reade is a writer from London. He studied English at Cambridge and Princeton, where he received his PhD in 2020. He has written about culture and politics for publications including Frieze, the Guardian, and the White Review, where he served as a contributing editor. He is currently Assistant Professor of English at Northeastern University London.
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