Milton StudiesPub Date : 2021-09-10DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.63.2.0265
Rosamund Paice
{"title":"\"Domestick Adam\" versus \"Adventrous Eve\": Arguments about Gardening in Milton's Eden","authors":"Rosamund Paice","doi":"10.5325/miltonstudies.63.2.0265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/miltonstudies.63.2.0265","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article emphasizes the importance of Adam and Eve's dispute over gardening in accounting for their progression towards the Fall. Reading Adam and Eve's conversation in book 9 of Paradise Lost in the light of husbandry manuals and the companionship ideals embraced by Milton, it argues that both stray from their culturally and textually sanctioned roles. Eve's rejection of her husband's society in favor of her plants runs counter to the desired movement up \"the scale of Nature\" (PL 5.509), as outlined by the archangel Raphael. Adam, too, chooses wrongly on the morning of the Fall, seeking pleasure and ease in the bower during the hours assigned for garden labor. As faults, Adam and Eve's misalignments in nature and companionship are temporary and can be put right, but their accumulation makes them susceptible to Satan's temptation.","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"265 - 293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41931372","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 : 2021-02-26DOI: 10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0041
P. Stevens
{"title":"Nationalism's Double-Bind: Individualism and the Global Implications of Milton's Nationalism","authors":"P. Stevens","doi":"10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0041","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This essay argues that the emergence of the modern nation-state in the seventeenth century paradoxically produced or made possible the kind of individualism or sense of self, specifically the confidence in individual agency and human rights, on which globalism now seems to rest secure. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the work of Milton, a claim the article tries to illustrate with a comparison of the Treatise of Civil Power with The Readie and Easie Way.","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"41 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41803814","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 : 2021-02-26DOI: 10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0077
Elizabeth Sauer
{"title":"\"Generous Arts and Affaires\": Milton on Labor","authors":"Elizabeth Sauer","doi":"10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0077","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:What can Milton's writings teach us about early modern and modern conceptions of labor? How does Milton participate in, imagine, and justify labor? The answers to such questions are especially relevant for academics today, as Milton's definitions of work and productivity include intellectual labor and public-facing humanities practices. The figures and discourses that Milton employs to represent \"labor\"—whose classical significances range from industry and exertion to lapse—are shown here to convey social, economic, psychological, and literary resonances.","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"77 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45902286","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 : 2021-02-26DOI: 10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0025
Feisal G. Mohamed
{"title":"Killing the Tyrant Against the Environment","authors":"Feisal G. Mohamed","doi":"10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0025","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Anti-tyranny literature typically focuses on rulers who war against their subjects. This article wonders if that same literature might offer insights on the tyrant who wars against the environment. Starting with consideration of the recent film First Reformed (2017), it then glances at the Nimrod passage in Paradise Lost before turning to The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates as a place where tyrannicide and environmental concern are, briefly, aligned. Milton's proximities to the Huguenot tract Vindiciae, contra tyrannos make clear that a monarch's destruction of his domain, which remains the property of the people, can trigger the right of resistance. But in both The Tenure and the Vindiciae the property rights of \"the people\" are located in their corporate personhood, which rights-bearing corporate entities proliferate in later modernity with destructive consequences.","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"25 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43238135","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 : 2021-02-26DOI: 10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0121
Margaret Kean
{"title":"Learning to Stand: Paradise Regained Today","authors":"Margaret Kean","doi":"10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0121","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Paradise Regained deals with the testing of personal and political resolve that follows forty days of self-isolation. It thus merits our immediate attention. The seventeenth-century poem that houses a nonconformist argument for liberty of conscience within its narration of Satan's temptation of Jesus in the wilderness is both pertinent and challenging for today's readers. We can apply God's exercise of his Son to current post-quarantine deliberations regarding how we wish to live now—specifically questions of privacy, good governance (for both self and state), shared values, and the future of political engagement.","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"121 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43884710","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 : 2021-02-26DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.63.1.0107
I. Issa
{"title":"Researching Milton in Egypt: Politics, Portraiture, and Pasta","authors":"I. Issa","doi":"10.5325/miltonstudies.63.1.0107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/miltonstudies.63.1.0107","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article recalls a series of experiences during a research trip in Egypt that elucidated various findings about John Milton's presence in the Arab world. Aside from a glimpse into the challenges of researching this relatively untapped cultural context in Milton studies, it also shows how these personal encounters link directly to Milton's presence in Egypt. From the intentions and emphases of the region's leading literary translator, to the political contexts and consequences during the Arab Spring that placed curious emphasis on the portraits of Suzanne Mubarak, to the ambiguities related to a new Egypt trying to move on from corruption, this article questions the boundaries of what constitutes early modern scholarship and how such scholarship is conducted.","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"107 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45993212","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 : 2021-02-26DOI: 10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0001
M. Kilgour
{"title":"The Pleasure of Milton","authors":"M. Kilgour","doi":"10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In debates today over the value of literature, Milton is one of the best advocates we might have for both the profound importance and the sheer pleasure of poetry. In his description of Eden and in the reading experience created through the form of the poem, Milton reminds us of the deep need for a rational, active, creative, but equally bodily, pleasure to give our lives meaning.","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"1 - 10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48041412","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 : 2021-02-26DOI: 10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0011
Lauren Shohet
{"title":"Media, Mediation, and Milton's Eve","authors":"Lauren Shohet","doi":"10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0011","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In Milton's Paradise Lost, creation is mediated from the beginning. The Fall of humanity changes some modes and degrees of mediation, but the epic suggests that considering differences among kinds of mediation is more fruitful than seeking to avoid it. Paradise Lost offers a useful context for our own debates about incessant digital distractions by exploring the affordances and challenges of different kinds of mediation, by positing links between femininity and mediation, and by considering how mediation affects attention.","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"11 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47032663","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 : 2021-02-26DOI: 10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0062
Rumrich
{"title":"William Empson and C. S. Lewis: The Atonement","authors":"Rumrich","doi":"10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0062","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Literary critics, Milton scholars in particular, tend to register C. S. Lewis and William Empson as opposites on account of their sharply contrasting views about Christianity. Although Lewis had been an atheist as a young man, he converted to Christianity around 1930. Empson, too, may be said to have undergone an adult conversion around the same time—from the mere atheism of his youth to an increasingly strident anti-Christianity. His critical writings repeatedly describe belief in hell and atonement through Christ's sacrifice as sadistic. Lewis, for his part, enjoys widespread fame precisely for his popular writings in rational defense of Christian theology. Despite their indeed striking differences, there is more common ground between them as literary critics than is generally recognized, even when it comes to Christian theology and specifically the doctrine of the Atonement.","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"62 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43886645","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 : 2021-02-26DOI: 10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0094
David A. Harper
{"title":"\"Fittest to Choose\": Milton Against Celebrity","authors":"David A. Harper","doi":"10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0094","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Milton was concerned with the dangers of populism throughout his career, most notably in Eikonoklastes and The Readie and Easie Way as he took on the celebrity king, Charles I. Sometimes charged with being an elitist who disregarded the common man, Milton actually worried about the political backwardness that populism engenders and the threat it poses not only to the political life of the nation, but also to the capacity for human salvation. His solution was a domestic \"nation-building\" grounded in educational reform. This article highlights the dangers Milton apprehended in the allure of fame and in the difficulties of preparing citizens to choose wisely when faced with the partisan allure of celebrity politicians.","PeriodicalId":42710,"journal":{"name":"Milton Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"106 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46329928","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}