Milton Studies: Volume 59

Published annually as an important forum for Milton scholarship and criticism, Milton Studies focuses on various aspects of John Milton’s life and writing, including biography; literary history; Milton’s work in its literary, intellectual, political, or cultural contexts; Milton’s influence on or relationship to other writers; and the history of critical response to his work.

Volume 59 includes:

Peculiar and Personal: Milton’s De Doctrina Christiana * John K. Hale

The Ecology of Chaos in Paradise Lost * Sarah Smith

Mortal Change: Life after Death in Paradise Lost * Mandy Green

Milton’s Sensuous Poetics: On the Material Texts of Paradise Lost * Thomas Festa

Milton’s Earthbound Bodies: Genesis, Physics, Aesthetics * Caryn O'Connell

Writing Epic in the Aftermath of Civil War: Paradise Lost, the Aeneid, and the Politics of Contemporary History * David Loewenstein

Heroic Restorations: Dryden and Milton * Thomas H. Luxon

Milton, Deliberative Liberty, and the Law of Spousal Privileges * Todd Butler