Satan's journey into evil -- The tempter of Grace abounding -- Diabolus and his unholy war -- Paradise regained : Satan and the son -- "Thine now is all this world" : a human satanic archetype -- Rochester and the Theriophilic paradox -- Rochester -- Satan -- dorimant -- The Earl of Rochester meets Milton's muse -- Epilogue : Where is the Satan of Samson agonistes?
Tracing the literary development of the satanic form into a humanized form, Nancy Rosenfeld looks anew at well known texts by four seventeenth-century English writers-John Milton, John Bunyan, George Etherege and John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester). Rosenfeld focuses on the works from each author in which a satanic character features prominently, to show how these writers, taken collectively, have imbued Satan with the characteristics that define the human
