Milton Studies : Volume 49

Published annually by Duquesne University Press 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.

The eight essays in this volume offer a variety of fresh subjects and cutting-edge approaches to Milton's prose and poetry. The ten essays in Milton Studies 49 cover a wide range of topics including: the relationship of Milton's Satan to Marlowe's work; the adaptation of several episodes and demonic characters in Book II of Paradise Lost to the saga of Odysseus; the implications of Odyssean allusions inParadise Lost as the means of reconciling classical and Christian ethics; Milton's idea of oneness as it evolves from reevaluating sexuality and gender relations in his works and his concept of end-time; Eve's dream in Paradise Lost and the interrelationship of identity, gender relations, and choice; passion in the godhead of Paradise Lost as the depiction of a deity who is not merely anthropomorphic but also anthropopathetic; Jesus' attitude toward reading practice in Paradise Regained; the two natures of Christ in Paradise Regained; the tension between commitment and freedom in Milton's concepts of marriage and divorce; and Milton's influence through the panorama of American literature. Hardcover is un-jacketed.