Queer Milton [Hardcover]

Queer Milton is the first book-length study dedicated to anti-heteronormative approaches to the poetry and prose of John Milton. Organized into sections on Eroticism and Form and Temporality and Affect, essays in this volume read Miltons works through radical queer interpretive frameworks that have elsewhere animated and enriched Renaissance Studies. Leveraging insights from recent queer work and related fields, contributions demonstrate diverse possible futures for Queer Milton Studies. At the same time, Queer Milton bears witness to the capacity for queer to arbitrate debates that have shaped, and indeed continue to shape, developments in the field of Milton Studies.

1. Rude Milton: Gender, Sexuality, and the Missing Middle of Milton Studies

     Erin Murphy

 

Part One: Eroticism and Form

 

2. Queering as Critical Practice in Reading Paradise Lost

 

3. Allegories of Breeding: Miltons Queer Disfigurations

 

4. Overflowing Cups for Amorous Jove: Abundance and Attraction in Miltons Elegies

 

5. Eros and Anteros: Queer Mutuality in The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce

 

6. Fellowships of Joy: Angelic Union in Paradise Lost