John Marcellus Steadman III

1918 – 2012

Professor of English at UC Riverside Be careful to distinguish from other published relatives of the same name.

• The myth of Asia
• "Siege of contraries": Rumors of war real or metaphorical
• Disembodied laughter
• Epic and tragic structure in Paradise lost
• In earnest or game
• Milton and the paradoxes of Renaissance heroism
• Milton and the Renaissance hero
• Milton's Biblical and classical imagery
• Milton's epic characters
• Milton's Epic Characters Image and Idol
• Moral fiction in Milton and Spenser
• Nature into myth