1. Between faith and parousia 2. Milton’s prose before 1660 3. Milton as political deconstructionist 4. Milton on church government 5. Milton and power 6. The erasure of the trace 7. Mortalist politics 8. Trusting the reader 9. Signs of the Restoration 10. Republicanism in the later poems 11. Milton and the King’s party 12. The politics of reason 13. Solidarity 14. Conclusion.