Making Milton Print, Authorship, Afterlives

by Depledge, Emma; Garrison, John S.; Nicosia, Marissa

• ISBN13: 9780198821892
• ISBN10: 0198821891
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-05-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Emma Depledge, Assistant Professor of English Literature, 1500-1790, Universit? de Neuch?tel,John S. Garrison, Professor of English, Grinnell College,Marissa Nicosia, Assistant Professor of Renaissance Literature, The Pennsylvania State University

Emma Depledge is Assistant Professor of English Literature, 1500-1790 at the Universit? de Neuch?tel. She is the author of Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence: Print, Politics and Alteration, 1642-1700 (CUP, 2018) and co-editor of Canonising Shakespeare: Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640-1740 (CUP, 2017). She writes the annual review of texts and editions for Shakespeare Survey and is an associate editor for English Studies.


John S. Garrison is Professor of English at Grinnell College, where he teaches courses on early modern literature and culture. His recent books include Shakespeare at Peace (with Kyle Pivetti, Routledge, 2018) and Shakespeare and the Afterlife (Oxford University Press, 2019).


Marissa Nicosia is Assistant Professor of Renaissance Literature at The Pennsylvania State University--Abington College. She is co-editor of Renaissance Futures, a special volume of Explorations in Renaissance Culture (2019), and she has published articles on early modern literature in journals such as Modern Philology, Milton Studies, and The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. She is a member of the executive council of the Milton Society of America.

Table of Contents

1. What Made Milton?, Emma Depledge, John S. Garrison, and Marissa Nicosia
PART ONE: MILTON AND THE BOOK TRADE
2. Milton and Transcendent Authorship, Stephen B. Dobranski
3. Making Connections with Milton's Epitaphium Damonis, Blaine Greteman
4. Repackaging Milton for the Late Seventeenth-Century Book Trade: Jacob Tonson, Paradise Lost, and John Dryden's The State of Innocence, Emma Depledge
5. Joseph Addison and the Domestication of Paradise Lost, Thomas N. Corns
PART TWO: MILTON'S CONSTRUCTION OF AN AUTHORIAL IDENTITY
6. Young Milton's Pauline Temper, Noam Reisner
7. Milton's Ludlow Maske and Remaking English Nationhood, David Loewenstein
8. Inscribing Textuality: Milton, Davenant, Authorship, and the Performance of Print, Rachel Willie
9. 'Londini sum natus': The Latin Voice of Milton's Life-Account in Defensio Secunda, John K. Hale
10. Milton among the Iconoclasts, Antoinina Bevan Zlatar
11. 'Do I Amuse You?: Milton's Muse and the Dangers of Erotic Inspiration', Kyle Pivetti
PART THREE: MILTON'S AFTERLIVES
12. Making Milton's Bogey: Or, Anne Finch Reads John Milton, Lara Dodds
13. Mexican Miltons, Angelica Duran
14. Milton's Erotic Dramas, Neil Forsyth
15. Milton and Radicalism, Nigel Smith
16. Afterword: Making Milton Matter, Elizabeth Sauer
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