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
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
In this provocative study, Kristin A. Pruitt offers a close reading of pivotal passages and critical concerns in Paradise Lost and examines Milton’s presentation of Adam and Eve’s relation
"Readers of Paradise Lost have long been struck by two prominent aspects of the poem: its compelling depiction of Satan and its deep engagement with its literary tradition. Satan's Poetry brings these
Eating and drinking -- vital to all human beings -- were of central importance to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Culinary Shakespeare, the first collection devoted solely to the study of food and
Despite the persistence and popularity of addressing the theme of eating in Paradise Lost, the tradition of Adam and Eve’s sin as one of gluttony—and the evidence for Milton’s adapta
While a considerable body of scholarship has been devoted to John Milton’s use of the Bible as an imaginative and structural framework for his own writings, this study is unique in focusing on t
Cousins (English, Macquarie U., Australia) analyzes Thomas More's interpretations of the major cultural categories informing his views of the common good and the good state. He focuses on categories t
From the 2009 incarnation of a biennial conference on British poet John Milton (1608-74), held in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 12 essays look at recovering Milton's poetics; rereading the inner landscape;
Vol. 1: "This authoritative text of the first edition of John Milton's Paradise lost transcribes the original 10-book poem, records its textual problems and numerous differences from the second editio
Vol. 1: "This authoritative text of the first edition of John Milton's Paradise lost transcribes the original 10-book poem, records its textual problems and numerous differences from the second editio
