Milton StudiesPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.64.1.0049
Danielle Robinson
{"title":"The Etymological Demon in Love","authors":"Danielle Robinson","doi":"10.5325/miltonstudies.64.1.0049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/miltonstudies.64.1.0049","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:A missing word haunts Milton's epic poem on loss. While Milton scholarship is silent on the absence of \"demon\" in Paradise Lost, the word is a shaping presence narratively involved in the subtext from start to finish. Milton leans on the classical etymology of \"demon\" to offer a reading of Satan's duality and is especially indebted to Plato, who uses the form daimonion to refer to a divine source. That Milton uses Greek sources to shape the contours of the suppressed word and gives Platonic demons primacy compels readers to question his intentions. By silently enfolding Platonic, Septuagintal, New Testament, Homeric, and Hesiodic demons into the poem, Milton maps Satan's subconscious rejection of reason in favor of the idols of self-seduction, self-worship, and pride.","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"64 1","pages":"49 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48880736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Milton StudiesPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.64.1.0074
E. Jacobs
{"title":"Death the Devourer: The Sound and Sight of Ate and Eat in Paradise Lost","authors":"E. Jacobs","doi":"10.5325/miltonstudies.64.1.0074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/miltonstudies.64.1.0074","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:While critical attention has focused on Milton's use of sound in Paradise Lost, the substantial recurrence of wordplay invoking the sound and visual patterns of the morphemes ate and eat has been neglected. This article argues that often in passages detailing or contrasting to the Fall, as well as alluding to it proleptically or analeptically, Milton uses the sound and/or sight of ate and eat to underscore—or contrast to—the corrupting, deadly ontological consequences of the \"compleating of the mortal Sin / Original.\"","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"64 1","pages":"74 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49356387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Milton StudiesPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.64.1.0001
John K. Hale
{"title":"The View from De Doctrina Christiana","authors":"John K. Hale","doi":"10.5325/miltonstudies.64.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/miltonstudies.64.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Working for years on Milton's De Doctrina Christiana makes his other writings look different, in at least three respects: address to readers, argumentation, and imagination. Comparisons are made with his other prose, with poems of all periods, and especially with Paradise Lost.","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"64 1","pages":"1 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41852735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Milton StudiesPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.64.1.0020
Deni Kasa
{"title":"Education, Political Theology, and Anti-Trinitarianism in Paradise Lost","authors":"Deni Kasa","doi":"10.5325/miltonstudies.64.1.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/miltonstudies.64.1.0020","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Recent critics have argued that Milton's poetry and prose anticipate the political theology of Carl Schmitt. In particular, Milton's God in Paradise Lost has been described in these terms because he provokes the angels in his exaltation of the Son, a gesture that allegedly resembles the Schmittian idea of the state of exception. This article argues that Milton's concept of the exception should be understood not only in Schmittian terms but also, according to Abdiel in book 5, as a pedagogical test. Situating Milton's God within contemporary anti-Trinitarian theology, I suggest that the deity can be seen as politically authoritarian, but that the poem aims to cultivate agency pedagogically in the exercising of moral judgment.","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"64 1","pages":"20 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48444395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Milton StudiesPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.64.1.0123
Aaron P. Cassidy
{"title":"Paradiastole, Lost and Regained","authors":"Aaron P. Cassidy","doi":"10.5325/miltonstudies.64.1.0123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/miltonstudies.64.1.0123","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The rhetorical figure of paradiastole (the redescription of vices as virtues) offers important insight into Satan's temptation discourse in Paradise Lost. This article argues that Milton deliberately employs the rhetorical ambiguity of paradiastole to mimic the interpretive challenge that instances of temptation present to the practice of ethical discernment. Milton's case for \"trial by what is contrary\" offers an interpretive context to meet this challenge. After addressing the difficulties inherent in understanding paradiastole and the principles from Milton's prose that help one to do so, the article analyzes the figure's operation in the temptation discourses of books 5 and 9. In Satan's paradiastolic speeches, Milton presents readers with sufficient clues to discern, even if Eve does not, whether the claims to virtuous intent can be sustained.","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"64 1","pages":"123 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49513974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Milton StudiesPub Date : 2021-09-10DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.63.2.0242
Elizabeth Hodgson
{"title":"Milton, Marvell, and the Amorous Theology of Vegetables","authors":"Elizabeth Hodgson","doi":"10.5325/miltonstudies.63.2.0242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/miltonstudies.63.2.0242","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In the mid-seventeenth century, vegetarianism acquires both a new political energy and a new philosophical narrative of origins. Andrew Marvell's and John Milton's contemporaries across the political spectrum are increasingly invested for differing reasons in an Eden in which plants and people nourish each other in innocence. Marvell in \"The Garden\" builds on this narrative, imagining a Paradise in which fruits offer themselves to the speaker in a strenuous and sexualized consumption. Milton in Paradise Lost partly adopts Marvell's vegetarian passions, as his Eve both loves and eats her amorous Edenic garden. Both Marvell and Milton, however, distance themselves in different ways from any direct correlations between Eve's vegetarian cuisine and the innocence of Eden. Although both poets invoke the vegetarians' myth of origins, they also avoid some of the correlative theories of gender and purity with which that philosophy was often elided.","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"242 - 264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47147999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Milton StudiesPub Date : 2021-09-10DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.63.2.0211
Antoinina Bevan Zlatar
{"title":"God Talk: Seeing and Hearing the Dialogue in Heaven in Paradise Lost","authors":"Antoinina Bevan Zlatar","doi":"10.5325/miltonstudies.63.2.0211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/miltonstudies.63.2.0211","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Milton's anthropomorphic representation of the Father and the Son in book 3 of Paradise Lost has always courted controversy. Early readers were divided, some faulting it for blasphemy, others praising it for the accuracy of its characterization. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the dialogue in heaven became, and continues to be, embroiled in the debate concerning Milton's anti-Trinitarian beliefs, and the question of the Father's goodness, prompted by the discovery of De Doctrina Christiana. This article adopts a new perspective by situating the celestial scene in the context of the varied iconography of the Trinity that flourished in the Middle Ages in England and on the Continent, an iconography that would be subject to reform during the Reformation and considered anathema by Milton's more iconoclastic contemporaries. Focusing on this pictorial tradition allows us to revisit Milton's critique of the doctrine of the Trinity, to take note of his scripturally licensed iconophilia, and to see and hear the passion at the heart of the dialogue.","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"211 - 241"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48857683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Milton StudiesPub Date : 2021-09-10DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.63.2.0157
A. Lewis
{"title":"Comus in Canaan: Milton's Masque and the Rape of Dinah","authors":"A. Lewis","doi":"10.5325/miltonstudies.63.2.0157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/miltonstudies.63.2.0157","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article presents a new argument about the origins of A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle. While criticism has long held that A Mask does not derive from any single source, at its core lies a specific biblical narrative: Genesis 34, the story of the rape of Dinah. Reading A Mask alongside Milton's outlines in the Trinity Manuscript for a drama based on Genesis 34, as well as Reformation commentaries on Genesis by Luther and Calvin, this article argues that their alignment has significant implications for our understanding of A Mask and Milton's early poetics.","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"157 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44239376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Milton StudiesPub Date : 2021-09-10DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.63.2.0188
Parslow
{"title":"\"A Meet and Happy Conversation\": Milton and Divorce in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre","authors":"Parslow","doi":"10.5325/miltonstudies.63.2.0188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/miltonstudies.63.2.0188","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre has long been recognized as a feminist revision of Paradise Lost as told from Eve's perspective. Written at a time of significant legal reform concerning marriage and divorce in nineteenth-century England, Jane Eyre offers a much more engaged rereading of Milton than scholars have observed. Centering on the novel's three proposal scenes, this article understands Brontë to draw upon Milton's The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce and extend its definition of marriage as \"conversation\" to include the experience of the wife.","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"188 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45189445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Milton StudiesPub Date : 2021-09-10DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.63.2.0294
Matthew Ritger
{"title":"Milton and the Literary Workhouse","authors":"Matthew Ritger","doi":"10.5325/miltonstudies.63.2.0294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/miltonstudies.63.2.0294","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article examines Milton's relation to seventeenth-century disciplinary institutions such as William Petty's proposed \"literary worke-houses\" and England's houses of correction. Milton's Of Education and Areopagitica are compared with Petty's ideas in the context of educational subcommittees in the Hartlib Circle to illustrate a shared emphasis on projects such as vocational language learning. The article then turns to Samson Agonistes and the \"common workhouse\" whose representation the poem repudiates. While arguing that Samson Agonistes might be understood partly as a personal response to the punishment of Milton's student and reader Thomas Ellwood in London's original house of correction, Bridewell prison, the article also detects a more abstract, Miltonic indictment of the abuses made possible by institutionalized power. A final consideration of the Errata and Omissa of the 1671 Poems helps to reveal Samson Agonistes's ingenious commentary on both the corrupted uses of institutional discipline and the possibilities for resistance imagined by a literary correction.","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"294 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49647233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}