Milton Now Alternative Approaches and Contexts [Hardcover]

By bringing together Milton specialists with other innovative early modern scholars, the collection aims to embrace and encourage a methodologically adventurous study of Milton's works, analyzing them both in relation to their own moment and their many ensuing contexts.Introduction; Erin Murphy and Catharine Gray PART I: TEMPORALITY AND HISTORICISM 1. 'Shipwreck is everywhere': Lycidas and the Problems of the Secular; Sharon Achinstein 2. 'What dost thou in this world?'; Jonathan Goldberg 3. Milton's Capitalist Son of God? Temporality and Divine Order in De doctrina Christiana ; Feisal G. Mohamed PART II: FORM AND FIGURES 4. Sufficient and Free: The Poetry of Paradise Lost ; Ann Baynes Coiro 5. As Jesus Tends To Divinity in Paradise Regained : Mathematical Limits and the Arian Son; Rachel Trubowitz 6. Uncouth Milton; Christopher Warley PART III: TAKING LIBERTIES: RECONSIDERING MILTONIC FREEDOM 7. The Liberty of the Subject and the 'Pris'ner Samson'; Molly Murray 8. What Do Men Want? Satan the Rake, and Masculine Desire; Diane Purkiss 9. Shades of Representation: Lucy Hutchinson's Ghost and the Politics of the Representative; Katharine Gillespie 10. Equiano, Satanism, and Slavery; Mary Nyquist 11. When Milton was in Vogue: Cross-Dressing Miltonic Presence and William Craft's Slave Narrative; Reginald A. Wilburn

All of the essays in this collection are well worth reading. Those in parts 1 and 2 should appeal mainly to Milton scholars and other early modern specialists. & Part 3 should command a broader audience with its diverse perspectives and applications. The collection certainly makes its case that a wide variety of critical and theoretical approaches can contribute greatly to Milton studies. (Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 69, 2014)

This remarkable book offers its readers twelve original essays (including a brilliant introduction) and a cumulative experience of high-quality adventure. The collection col3À