A New Companion to Milton

A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically–acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies while reflecting the very latest advances in research in the field. The Companion explores literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, and relevant contemporary texts and responses to Milton over time.

Extensively revised and updated to reflect the most recent research, this new edition also conveys the excitement of recent developments through the addition of eight original essays, each of which engages closely with Milton′s poetic oeuvre. It now includes a new section exploring Milton′s global impact in China, India, Japan, Korea, in Spanish–speaking American and the Arab–speaking world, along with a chronology which sets Milton′s life and work in the context of his age. The result is a thoroughly wide–ranging Companion that offers a balance between critical
readings and historical and cultural context.

Notes on contributors

Preface

Note on editions used

List of abbreviations

Part I: The Cultural Context

1. Genre
Barbara K. Lewalski

2. The Classical Literary Tradition
John K. Hale

3. Milton on the Bible
Regina M. Schwartz

4. Literary Baroque and Literary Neoclassicism
Graham Parry

5. Milton and English Poetry
Achsah Guibbory

6. Milton s English
Thomas N. Corns

Part II: Politics and Religion

7. The Legacy of the Late Jacobean Period
Cedric C. Brown

8. Milton and Puritanism
N. H. Keeble

9. Radical Heterodoxy and Heresy
John Rumrich

10. Milton and Ecology
Diane Kelsey McColley

11. The English and Other Peoples
Andrew Hadfield

12. The Literature of Controversy
Joad Raymond

Part III:Texts

13. On the Morning of Christ s Nativity , Upon the Circumcision and The Passion
Thomas N. Corns

14. The poetic promise of On the Morning of Christ s Nativity
Noam Reisner

15. John Milton s Comus
Leah S. Marcus

16. Lycidas
Stella P. Revard

17. Milton′s Sonnets
Ryan Netzley

18. Exact Latinity and Excellent English: Milton′s Early Poetry
Sarah M. Knight

19. Early Political Prose
Elizabeth Skerpan Wheeler

20. Milton, Marriage and Divorce
Annabel Patterson

21. Republicanism
Martin Dzelzainis

22. Late Political Prose
Laura Lunger Knoppers

23. Paradise Lost in Intellectual History
Stephen M. Fallon

24. The Radical Religious Politics of Paradise Lost
David Loewenstein

25. Obedience and Autonomy in Paradise Lost
Michael Schoenfeldt

26. Paradise Lost and the Multiplicity of Time
Amy Boesky

27. Self–Contradicting Puns in Paradise Lost
John Leonard

28. A Paradise for Poets
Maggie Kilgour

29. Milton and his Epic Precursors: Overgoing and Recuperation
Tobias Gregory

30. ′Nor vacuous the space′: Milton′s Chaos of the Vacuist–Plenist Controversy
Rachel Trubowitz

31. Samson Agonistes
Sharon Achinstein

32. Memorial, Performance, and Tragic Action in Samson Agonistes
Feisal G. Mohamed

33. Paradise Regained
Margaret Kean

34. Satan, the Son of God, and the Brief Epic
Thomas N. Corns

Part IV: Influences and Impact

35. Reading Milton, 1674 1800
Kay Gilliland Stevenson

36. Milton: The Romantics and After
Peter J. Kitson

37. Milton′s Global Reach

The Muslim–Arab World
Islam Issa

China
Tianhu Hao

India
Malabika Sarkar

Japan
Hiroko Sano

Korea
Byung–Eun Lee

Latin America
Mario Murgia

Part V: Chronology of Milton′s Life, Works and Times
Thomas N. Corns

Bibliography

Index

Thomas N. Corns is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Bangor University. Together with Gordon Campbell, he is the General Editor of The Complete Works of John Milton. His recent publications include John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought (with Gordon Campbell, 2008), an edition of the complete works of Gerrard Winstanley (with Ann Hughes and David Loewenstein, 2009), and The Milton Encyclopedia (2012). He is currently working with David
Loewenstein on a scholarly edition of Paradise Lost. Professor Corns is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America.