Pub Date : 2021-02-26DOI: 10.5325/MILTONSTUDIES.63.1.0136
Katie Calloway Sueda
abstract:This article traces Milton's considerable influence on the contemporary genres of science fiction and fantasy. Works that make no direct reference to Milton or Paradise Lost still unfold within a fictive world he gave to English literature, and in Paradise Lost Milton posed big questions about human nature, God, and good and evil in ways that are still seen in these genres today. After tracing how Milton renovated the fictional cosmos, this article explores works of science fiction and fantasy that take up the philosophical and theological questions posed by Paradise Lost, focusing in particular on Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's 1990 novel, Good Omens.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-06DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.62.2.0221
Danielson
abstract:Many who face death and loss struggle to make sense of God, of issues of fairness and justice, and of the world. For Milton, too, questions of theodicy, right and wrong, and cosmology are integral with a search for meaning. His epic project of asserting and observing Providence—by engaging readers dramatically and poetically as well as philosophically—still encourages us, allowing for distance of time and sensibility, to pursue our individual and collective quests for meaning: perhaps even to discern and articulate a more coherent, if not yet polished, “cosmic syntax.”
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Pub Date : 2020-10-06DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.62.2.0193
S. Fallon
abstract:Milton is still read hundreds of years after his death primarily because of the breathtaking beauty of his poetry. We read him today for the same reasons that we still listen to the works of Mozart or Beethoven and still stand before the paintings of Raphael and Rembrandt. Milton’s medium is words, and with his words he is always arguing and championing ideas—ideas about politics and government, gender relations, free speech and toleration. Here he has much to teach us, not only about ideals toward which we still strive, but also pitfalls we would do well to avoid, for Milton is in many ways a divided figure: a proto-egalitarian on gender question who is also a fierce advocate of male privilege; an advocate of free speech and toleration, but within limits; a republican who distrusts the people; and a theocrat who inspired architects of democracy.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-06DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.62.2.0252
Shore
abstract:This article argues that Milton scholarship in an age of emboldened white supremacy needs to take account of Milton’s own whiteness and especially his role in the historical development of white identity. Based on a close reading of the Hamitic curse, as retold by Michael in book 12 of Paradise Lost, it argues that Milton translated the racial hierarchies of his own day into the split structure of an emergent racial liberalism. Milton remade white identity into the racially unmarked category of universal liberal personhood while carving out an exception for racially marked but strategically unspecified others who may be enslaved with “no wrong, / But justice.”
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Pub Date : 2020-10-06DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.62.2.0239
K. Edwards
abstract:The representation of learning in Paradise Lost provides an antidote to the pressured, anxiety-producing experience of higher education today. Demonic, divine, and prelapsarian ways of thinking in the poem prepare the ground for showing that Adam and Eve’s way of learning is not a lesser process after the Fall but rather the sign of their having taken possession of their full humanity. Their postlapsarian errors and failures lead to the rethinking that learning depends upon, while the need to nurture their intimate, loving, and complex relationship ensures that their learning does not become abstruse and separate from their lived experience.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-06DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.62.2.0323
Rosenblatt
abstract:Most of us in the twenty-first century are assailed by information to a degree that could not have been predicted twenty-five years ago, and that comes at the price of an attenuated ability to respond to pure form. Music, the least representational of the arts, is the closest to pure form. And to the extent that poetry is itself a music, the aesthetic experience it offers makes recovery at least as pleasurable as discovery, just as a long-form musical composition may sound better if we have already heard it. Readers of Milton, supplying their own examples, can recall numerous passages whose music continues to give pleasure. This article provides one reader’s experience of Milton’s poetry, with different passages exerting their particular appeal in youth, middle age, and old age.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-06DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.62.2.0210
B. Greteman
abstract:John Milton had little patience with those whom he considered “stupid.” This article examines the various contexts in which Milton expressed contempt for political opponents or those he deemed as lacking common sense, good judgment, or intelligence. It suggests that we can learn as much from Milton’s intolerance for unin-formed opinions as we can from his much-discussed tolerance for dissent.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-06DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.62.2.0280
Hao
abstract:Milton’s Satan matters in the cultural life of China because his fighting spirit has inspired the Chinese struggle for national liberation in the past and because Satan as a poetic figure of moral reality created by a “radical humanist” is still instructive for Chinese atheist readers. Significantly, Lu Xun interpreted Milton and Satan from the perspective of atheism in the early twentieth century. Later readers, conspicuously Jin Fashen, an important Milton translator and a student of William Empson, have inherited what I call the “Lu Xun tradition.” This article outlines the vicissitudes of Milton’s Satan in China to show the character’s contemporary significance in the country.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-06DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.62.2.0266
Wilburn
abstract:This article serves as a wake-up call for more early modern critics to pursue a new cultural mode of literary criticism in Milton studies. In examining select racialized moments in Milton’s works, the author acknowledges the present moment as an acceptable time for responsibly and forthrightly interpreting race and blackness as a metalanguage and intertext of marginalizing Otherness throughout the canon of one of English literature’s most revered poets. The author contends that unorthodox receptions of Milton by black authors such as Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison can help to theorize race in Milton’s writings.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-06DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.62.2.0306
Melissa E. Sanchez
abstract:Queer theory has never been an explicit strand of Milton studies, nor has Milton been central to early modern queer studies, in part because he resists the secularization that has been assumed to be a necessary condition of queerness. I propose that Milton’s value for early modern queer and trans theory in fact arises from his unique authority and canonical status as a radical Christian poet. We can trace in his writing the ambiguities and exclusions that inevitably permeate queer and trans scholarship as a contested and heterogeneous field. It is because of his Christian convictions, not in spite of them, that Milton allows us to understand religious thought as producing the unstable and promiscuous genders and desires that modern evangelical politics would prohibit.
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