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Winner of the Irene Samuel Memorial Award of the Milton Society of America
The Oxford Handbook of Milton
Edited by Nicholas McDowell and Nigel Smith
752 pages
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246x171mm
978-0-19-969788-5
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Paperback
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10 November 2011
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- This prize-winning volume is the most comprehensive collection of original essays ever published on Milton, with equal number of essays devoted to the poetry and prose
- Essays divided into key sections, such as 'Shorter Poems', 'Paradise Lost', 'Early Prose', allowing readers to focus on a specific area of interest and, in the prose sections, to follow Milton's developing or fluctuating lines of argument
- Most essays are devoted to and include detailed discussion of a specific text or cluster of related texts
Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. The Oxford Handbook of Milton is a comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studies in the early twenty-first century, bringing together an international team of thirty-five leading scholars in one volume. The rise of critical interest in Milton's political and religious ideas is the most striking aspect of Milton studies in recent times, a consequence in great part of the increasingly fluid relations between literary and historical study. The Handbook both embodies the interest in Milton's political and religious contexts in the last generation and seeks to inaugurate a new phase in Milton studies through closer integration
of the poetry and prose. There are eight essays on various aspects of Paradise Lost, ranging from its classical background and poetic form to its heretical theology and representation of God. There are sections devoted both to the shorter poems, including 'Lycidas' and Comus, and the final poems, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. There are also three sections on Milton's prose: the early controversial works on church government, divorce, and toleration, including Areopagitica; the regicide and republican prose of 1649-1660, the period during which he served as the chief propagandist for the English Commonwealth and Cromwell's Protectorate, and the various writings on education, history, and theology. The opening essays explore what we know about Milton's biography and what it might
tell us; the final essays offer interpretations of aspects of Milton's massive influence on later writers, including the Romantic poets.Readership: Students and scholars of the literature, history, theology, and politics of the Renaissance; Miltonists
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Edited by Nicholas McDowell, Associate Professor of English, University of Exeter, and Nigel Smith, Professor of English, Princeton University Nicholas McDowell is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Exeter. Previously he was a Research Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He is the author of The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion, and Revolution, 1630-1660 (Oxford University Press, 2003), Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars: Marvell and the Cause of Wit (Oxford University Press, 2008), and essays on Milton in Journal of the History of Ideas, Milton Quarterly, and Review of English Studies. He is editing Milton's 1649
prose for the Oxford Complete Works of John Milton. In 2007 his research was recognized by the award of a Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust.
Nigel Smith is Professor of English and Co-director of the Center for the Study of Books and Media at Princeton University. He was previously Reader in English at Oxford University and Fellow and Tutor in English at Keble College. He is the author of Perfection Proclaimed: Language and Literature in English Radical Religion, 1640-1660 (Oxford University Press,1989); Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660 (Yale University Press, 1994), Is Milton better than Shakespeare? (Harvard University Press, 2008), and Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon (Yale University Press, 2010). He has edited the Ranter pamphlets, the Journal of George Fox and the Longman Annotated English Poets edition of the poems of Andrew Marvell (a TLS 'Book of the Year' 2003, Guardian Paperback of the Week,
2006). He is a recipient of British Academy awards, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center fellowships.
Contributors:
Sharon Achinstein, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
Gordon Campbell, University of Leicester
Ann Baynes Coiro, Rutgers University
Thomas N. Corns, University of Wales, Bangor
John Creaser, Royal Holloway, University of London and Mansfield College, Oxford
Stuart Curran, University of Pennsylvania
Stephen B. Dobranski, Georgia State University
Martin Dzelzainis, Royal Holloway, University of London
Karen L. Edwards, University of Exeter
Stephen M. Fallon, University of Notre Dame
Estelle Haan, Queen's University, Belfast
Elizabeth D. Harvey,
University of Toronto
Blair Hoxby, Stanford University
Ann Hughes, University of Keele
Edward Jones, Oklahoma State University
N. H. Keeble, University of Stirling
Laura Lunger Knoppers, Pennsylvania State University
John Leonard, University of Western Ontario
Nicholas McDowell, University of Exeter
Charles Martindale, University of Bristol
William Poole, New College, Oxford
Diane Purkiss, Keble College, Oxford
Timothy Raylor, Carleton College, Minnesota
Joad Raymond, University of East Anglia
John Rogers, Yale University
Elizabeth Sauer, Brock University
R. W. Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge
Regina M.
Schwartz, Northwestern University
Nigel Smith, Princeton University
Paul Stevens, University of TorontoGordon Teskey, Harvard University
Nicholas von Maltzahn, University of Ottawa.
Susan Wiseman, Birkbeck College, University of London
Joseph Wittreich, City University of New York
Anne-Julia ZwierleinUniversity of Bamberg, Germany
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"an impressive achievement [which] offers the reader an excellent sense of the strongest critical work being done in Milton studies... This excellent Oxford handbook [has] established a new and higher standard for such volumes." - David Loewenstein, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 "destined to become required reading for serious Milton students and academics alike... a work which will assuredly set a new, exacting standard for Milton studies for years to come" - Philip Major, Modern Language Review "a body of scholarship that brings textual criticism and the history of the book to Milton studies in vital and interesting ways... a significant and extremely useful handbook" - Thomas
Fulton, Renaissance Quarterly
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Notes on Contributors
Note on the Text and List of Abbreviations
Miltons' Life: Some Significant Dates
Part I: Lives
1: Edward Jones: 'Ere Half My Days': Milton's Life, 1608-1640
2: Nicholas von Maltzahn: John Milton: The Later Life, 1641-1675
Part II: Shorter Poems
3: Estelle Haan: 'The Adorning of My Native Tongue': Milton's Latin Poetry and Linguistic Metamorphosis
4: Gordon Teskey: Milton's Early English Poems: The Nativity Ode, 'L'Allegro', 'Il Penseroso'
5: Ann Baynes Coiro: 'A thousand fantasies': The Lady and the Maske
6: Nicholas McDowell: 'Lycidas' and the Influence of Anxiety
7: John Leonard: The Troubled, Quiet Endings of Milton's English Sonnets
Part III: Civil War Prose, 1641-45
8: Nigel Smith: The Anti-Episcopal Tracts: Republicanism Puritanism and the Truth in Poetry
9: Sharon Achinstein: 'A Law in this matter to himself': Contextualising Milton's Divorce Tracts
10: Diane Purkiss: Whose Liberty? The Rhetoric of Milton's Divorce Tracts
11: Ann Hughes: Milton Areopagitica, and the Parliamentary Cause
12: Blair Hoxby: Areopagitica and Liberty
Part IV: Regicide, Republican, and Restoration Prose
13: Stephen M. Fallon: 'The Strangest Piece of Reason': Milton's Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
14: Nicholas McDowell: Milton's Regicide Tracts and the Uses of Shakespeare
15: Joad Raymond: John Milton, European: the Rhetoric of Milton's Defences
16: Estelle Haan: Defensio Prima and the Latin Poets
17: N. H. Keeble: 'Nothing nobler then a free Commonwealth': Milton's Later Vernacular Republican Tracts
18: Elizabeth Sauer: Disestablishment, Toleration, the New Testament Nation: Milton's Late Religious Tracts
19: Paul Stevens: Milton and National Identity
Part V: Writings on Education, History, Theology
20: William Poole: The Genres of Milton's Commonplace Book
21: Timothy Raylor: Milton, the Hartlib Circle, and the Education of the Aristocracy
22: Martin Dzelzainis: Conquest and Slavery in Milton's History of Britain
23: Gordon Campbell and Thomas N. Corns: De Doctrina Christiana: An England That Might Have Been
Part VI: Paradise Lost
24: Charles Martindale: Writing Epic: Paradise Lost
25: John Creaser: 'A mind of most exceptional energy': Verse Rhythm in Paradise Lost
26: Stephen B. Dobranski: Editing Milton: the Case against Modernization
27: Karen L. Edwards: The 'World' of Paradise Lost
28: Nigel Smith: Paradise Lost and Heresy
29: Stuart Curran: God
30: Susan Wiseman: Eve, Paradise Lost, and Female Interpretation
31: Martin Dzelzainis: The Politics of Paradise Lost
Part VII: 1671 Poems: Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes
32: Laura Lunger Knoppers: 'Englands Case': Context of the 1671 Poems
33: John Rogers: Paradise Regained and the Memory of Paradise Lost
34: R. W. Serjeantson: Samson Agonistes and 'Single Rebellion'
35: Regina M. Schwartz: Samson Agonistes: the Force of Justice and the Violence of Idolatry
36: Elizabeth D. Harvey: Samson Agonistes and Milton's Sensible Ethics
Part VII: Aspects of Influence
37: Anne-Julia Zwierlein: Milton Epic and Bucolic: Empire and Readings of Paradise Lost, 1667-1837
38: Joseph Wittreich: Miltonic Romanticism
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