Published annually as an important forum for Milton scholarship and criticism, Milton Studies focuses on various aspects of John Milton’s life and writing, including biography; literary history; Milto
Traditionally hailed as a champion of various forms of liberty and toleration, and creator of a new-modeled Eden, Milton came to occupy a privileged place in genealogies of liberalism, modernity, and
Milton's masterwork, which he considered better than Paradise Lost, details the temptation of Jesus by Satan in the first 40 days of Jesus's ministry. It is magnificent, of course, but studied much le
The author explores why people in early modern England were motivated to interpret their historical period through the perspective of their lives, and the consequences of this biographical reorient
Published annually by Duquesne University Press as an important forum for Milton scholarship and criticism, Milton Studies focuses on various aspects of John Milton’s life and writing, including biogr
Machacek (English, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York) examines how the Homeric epics figure in the composition of Paradise Lost diverging somewhat from most scholars of the later 20th century who
This study of John Donne’s treatment of equity and law in his Satyres, five formal verse satires written in the mid-1590s, demonstrates that Donne presented the Satyres as a response to the early deve
How does soil, as an ecological element, shape culture? With the sixteenth-century shift in England from an agrarian economy to a trade economy, what changes do we see in representations of soil as re
In revised and extended versions of eight presentations to a 2013 conference on John Milton at Middle Tennessee State University, scholars of English literature look at his work in terms of materi
After the fourteenth century horror of the Black Death there were lesser recurrences of the plague over the next three hundred years. Totaro (English, Florida Gulf Coast University) has transcribed se
The 17th century saw the beginnings of industrialization in England and also some of the finest English Renaissance literature and art. It also was a time of air pollution from the burning of coal and
Ten new essays written by prominent scholars including Frank Kermode, Edward W. Tayler, and Marc Berley address the attack on literature by various schools of critical theory. Requiring what Edward W.
"In this comparative and hybrid study, Wilburn examines the presence and influence of John Milton in a diverse array of early African American writing such as Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Fra
North American scholars explore how four major tropes informed English literature of the period. The tropes are theater, moment, journey, and ambassadorship. The topics include justice, presence, and
"Reassesses the literary invention of Margaret Cavendish -- the use she makes of other writers, her own various forms of writing, and the ways in which she creates her own literary persona -- to trans
"Offers new readings of Milton's major works, including Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, highlighting how Milton shifts the parlance of freedom and liberty from th
Lawrence (English, U. British Columbia) invokes a radical philosophy of generosity in this reading of a number of plays by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. He argues that the plays express
"Places Shakespeare's sonnets and plays, including Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and Antony and Cleopatra, within the context of the literary history of praise poetry and explores the underlying in
