Introduction. Milton's nationalism: challenges and questions / David Loewenstein and Paul Stevens -- The majesty of a free people. Milton's nationalism and the English Revolution: strains and contradictions / David Loewenstein ; Milton and the struggle for the representation of the nation: reading Paradise Lost through Eikonoklastes / Andrew Hadfield ; Victory's crest: Milton, the English nation, and Cromwell / Warren Chernaik -- Nationhood, the English church, and non-conformity. Israel and English Protestant nationalism: "fast sermons" during the English Revolution / Achsah Guibbory ; Look homeward angel: guardian angels and nationhood in seventeenth-century England / Joad Raymond -- The invisible nation: church, state, and Schism in Milton's England / Andrew Escobedo -- Ethnicity and international relations. Milton and the limitations of Englishness / Thomas N. Corns ; The Anglo-Scoto-Dutch triangle: Milton and Marvell to 1660 / John Kerrigan ; Disappointed nationalism: Milton in the context of seventeenth-century debates about the nation-state / Victoria Kahn ; How Milton's nationalism works: globalization and the posibilities of positive nationalism / Paul Stevens -- Milton's nationalism and its discontents: gender, luxury, slavery. The fatal Boadicea: depicting women in Milton's History of Britain, 1670 / Willy Maley ; Consuming nations: Milton and luxury / Laura Lunger Knoppers ; Slavery, resistance, and nation in Milton and Locke / Mary Nyquist -- The nationalization of Milton. Milton: nation and reception / Nicholas von Maltzahn