“Lowliness majestic” : androcentric patriarchy, queerness, and the equivocal meekness of eve in John Milton’s paradise lost

• Main Author: Ng, Ian Alexander
• Other Authors: Katherine Hindley
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/78841
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Focusing on John Milton’s immensely ambivalent depiction of gender, Biblical patriarchy, and feminine lowliness in his magnum opus, the epic poem “Paradise Lost” (“PL”), this final-year thesis answers the following research question: “To what extent does Milton’s portrayal of gender, Eve, and lowlin...