Milton now : alternative approaches and contexts / edited by Catharine Gray and Erin Murphy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gray, Catharine, 1966- editor.

Murphy, Erin, 1971- editor.

Palgrave Macmillan (Firm), publisher.

Stuart Curran-Joseph Wittreich Milton Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Early modern cultural studies.

Early modern cultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Milton, John, 1608-1674--Criticism and interpretation.

Milton, John.

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy)

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy)

Murphy, Erin, 1971- (autograph) (Milton Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vi, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Milton Now: Alternative Approaches and Contexts offers twelve new essays that engage topics, contexts and approaches rarely broached in the study of John Milton. Taking their inspiration from the twenty-fifth anniversary of the influential collection Re-membering Milton: Essays on the Texts and Traditions, these essays deploy a wide array of methodologies, including historicist, neo-Marxist, psychoanalytic, formalist, feminist and queer. They explore an even wider range of topics, including secularism, time, poetics, mathematics, class, incarceration, women writers, libertinism, sexuality, slavery, race, and cross-dressing. Book jacket.

Contents:

Section I Temporality and Historicism

1 "Shipwreck is everywhere": Lycidas and the Problems of the Secular / Sharon Achinstein Achinstein, Sharon 29

2 "What dost thou in this world?" / Jonathan Goldberg Goldberg, Jonathan 51

3 Milton's Capitalist Son of God? Temporality and Divine Order in De doctrina Christiana / Feisal G. Mohamed Mohamed, Feisal G. 69

Section II Form and Figures

4 Sufficient and Free: The Poetry of Paradise Lost / Ann Baynes Coiro Coiro, Ann Baynes 83

5 As Jesus Tends to Divinity in Varadise Regained: Mathematical Limits and the Arian Son / Rachel Trubowitz Trubowitz, Rachel 109

6 Uncouth Milton / Christopher Warley Warley, Christopher 129

Section III Taking Liberties: Reconsidering Miltonic Freedom

7 The Liberty of the Subject and the "Pris'ner Samson" / Molly Murray Murray, Molly 151

8 What Do Men Want? Satan, the Rake, and Masculine Desire / Diane Purkis Purkis, Diane 175

9 Shades of Representation: Lucy Hutchinson's Ghost and the Politics of the Representative / Katharine Gillespie Gillespie, Katharine 195

10 Equiano, Satanism, and Slavery / Mary Nyquist Nyquist, Mary 215

11 When Milton Was in Vogue: Cross-Dressing Miltonic Presence and William Craft's Slave Narrative / Reginald A. Wilburn Wilburn, Reginald A. 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.

Milton Collection copy has on title leaf manuscript inscription ("For Professor Wittreich, I offer this as a small token of my enormous gratitutde for all I have learned from your work on Milton. Erin") recording the gift of this volume to Joseph A. Wittreich from editor Erin Murphy.

ISBN:

9781137383099

1137383097

OCLC:

881388007

Publisher Number:

40024466888