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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 Milton's 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.
List of contents
1. Rude Milton: Gender, Sexuality, and the Missing Middle of Milton Studies, Erin Murphy.- 2. Queering as Critical Practice in Reading Paradise Lost, Thomas H. Luxon.- 3. Allegories of Breeding: Milton's Queer Disfigurations, Corey McEleney.- 4. "Overflowing Cups for Amorous Jove": Abundance and Attraction in Milton's Elegies, John S. Garrison.- 5. Eros and Anteros: Queer Mutuality in The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, David L. Orvis.- 6. "Fellowships of Joy": Angelic Union in Paradise Lost, Stephen Guy-Bray.- 7. Virtual or Immediate Touch: Queer Adaptations of Paradise Lost in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Lara Dodds.- 8. "What Hath Night to Do with Sleep?": Religion and Biopolitics in Milton's Mask, Melissa E. Sanchez.- 9. What Happened Last Night: Shameful Memories and Miltonic Nationhood, Kyle Pivetti.- 10. Dagon as Queer Assemblage: Effeminacy and Terror in Samson Agonistes, Drew Daniel.- 11. Milton's Queer Earth: A Geology of Exhausted Life, Steven Swarbrick.
About the author
David L. Orvis is Professor of English at Appalachian State University, USA. He is co-editor of Psalms in the Early Modern World (2011) and The Noble Flame of Katherine Philips: A Poetics of Culture, Politics, and Friendship (2015).
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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 Milton’s 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.
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“Stockton assures that the collection’s intention is not to portray Milton as the unitary master of his own meaning. … With respect to this goal, I say with conviction: mission accomplished. I am better off for having met all these queer Miltons, and I commend them to your acquaintance.” (Kent R. Lehnhof, Milton Quarterly, Vol. 53 (4), 2019)
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"Stockton assures that the collection's intention is not to portray Milton as the unitary master of his own meaning. ... With respect to this goal, I say with conviction: mission accomplished. I am better off for having met all these queer Miltons, and I commend them to your acquaintance." (Kent R. Lehnhof, Milton Quarterly, Vol. 53 (4), 2019)
