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A collection of essays exploring John Milton's rise to popularity and his status as a canonical author. The volume considers Milton's 'authorial persona' in the context of his relationships with his contemporary writers, stationers, and readers.
List of contents
- 1: Emma Depledge, John S. Garrison, and Marissa Nicosia: What Made Milton?
- PART ONE: MILTON AND THE BOOK TRADE
- 2: Stephen B. Dobranski: Milton and Transcendent Authorship
- 3: Blaine Greteman: Making Connections with Milton's Epitaphium Damonis
- 4: Emma Depledge: Repackaging Milton for the Late Seventeenth-Century Book Trade: Jacob Tonson, Paradise Lost, and John Dryden's The State of Innocence
- 5: Thomas N. Corns: Joseph Addison and the Domestication of Paradise Lost
- PART TWO: MILTON'S CONSTRUCTION OF AN AUTHORIAL IDENTITY
- 6: Noam Reisner: Young Milton's Pauline Temper
- 7: David Loewenstein: Milton's Ludlow Maske and Remaking English Nationhood
- 8: Rachel Willie: Inscribing Textuality: Milton, Davenant, Authorship, and the Performance of Print
- 9: John K. Hale: 'Londini sum natus': The Latin Voice of Milton's Life-Account in Defensio Secunda
- 10: Antoinina Bevan Zlatar: Milton among the Iconoclasts
- 11: Kyle Pivetti: 'Do I Amuse You?: Milton's Muse and the Dangers of Erotic Inspiration'
- PART THREE: MILTON'S AFTERLIVES
- 12: Lara Dodds: Making Milton's Bogey: Or, Anne Finch Reads John Milton
- 13: Angelica Duran: Mexican Miltons
- 14: Neil Forsyth: Milton's Erotic Dramas
- 15: Nigel Smith: Milton and Radicalism
- 16: Elizabeth Sauer: Afterword: Making Milton Matter
- Works Cited
About the author
Emma Depledge is Assistant Professor of English Literature, 1500-1790 at the Université de Neuchâtel. She is the author of Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence: Print, Politics and Alteration, 1642-1700 (CUP, 2018) and co-editor of Canonising Shakespeare: Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640-1740 (CUP, 2017). She writes the annual review of texts and editions for Shakespeare Survey and is an associate editor for English Studies.
John S. Garrison is Professor of English at Grinnell College, where he teaches courses on early modern literature and culture. His recent books include Shakespeare at Peace (with Kyle Pivetti, Routledge, 2018) and Shakespeare and the Afterlife (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Marissa Nicosia is Assistant Professor of Renaissance Literature at The Pennsylvania State University--Abington College. She is co-editor of Renaissance Futures, a special volume of Explorations in Renaissance Culture (2019), and she has published articles on early modern literature in journals such as Modern Philology, Milton Studies, and The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. She is a member of the executive council of the Milton Society of America.
Summary
A collection of essays exploring John Milton's rise to popularity and his status as a canonical author. The volume considers Milton's 'authorial persona' in the context of his relationships with his contemporary writers, stationers, and readers.
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This is a capacious and varied collection that touches on many different aspects of Milton's life and legacy ... the volume offers an opportunity to reflect on the nature of authorship and to admire the fluidity and plurality of a writer who made a strong claim to integrity and singularity.
