Pub Date : 2020-05-14DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.62.2.0294
Sidney Bartlett
abstract:This article compares the respective functions of the US-Mexico border wall and borders within Paradise Lost. Supposed threats to economic, physical, and cultural property encourage modern nation-states to continue constructing territorial borders despite a growing body of work that contests the efficacy of walls in deterring unauthorized migration. More effective are the symbolic capacities of walls and their ability to articulate the people and cultures they enclose.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-19DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.62.1.0048
Jeremy Specland
abstract:This article traces Milton's late career readings of Psalm 2 to argue that the most vexed moments in his scriptural exegesis become the most poetically productive. De Doctrina Christiana was both more committed to scriptural authority than other systematic theologies of the day and questioned the integrity of the biblical text more radically. Milton's readings of Psalm 2 in De Doctrina Christiana, in his 1653 translation, and in Paradise Lost demonstrate not only a growing sense of hermeneutic liberty but also the exegetical limits beyond which interpretive ambition must not go.
摘要：这篇文章追溯了米尔顿职业生涯后期对《诗篇2》的解读，认为他在圣经注释中最烦恼的时刻变成了最富有诗意的时刻。与当时的其他系统神学家相比，德·基督教义更致力于圣经权威，并更激进地质疑圣经文本的完整性。米尔顿在1653年的《基督教义》（De Doctrina Christiana）和《失乐园》（Paradise Lost）中对《诗篇》第二篇的解读，不仅表明了解释学自由感的增强，而且也表明了解释野心不能超越的解释极限。
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Pub Date : 2020-02-19DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.62.1.0136
T. Cook
abstract:Milton's most consequential statement regarding his plans for an Arthurian epic occurs in the proem to book 9 of Paradise Lost, in which he seemingly refuses to debase his current project with the trivialities of chivalric romance. His loftier subject will instead be the tragedy of Adam and Eve. Milton's account of the Fall is obviously a Christian tragedy with classical precedents. However, judging by the frequency with which it follows romance conventions, book 9 of Paradise Lost can also be read as a chivalric tragedy, a mode not only familiar to Milton's contemporaries but also well suited to his political agenda and lifelong fondness for Arthurian literature. In fact, the proem does not reject romance outright, only a particular model associated with royalist propaganda. Its purpose is instead to prepare the reader, in true romance fashion, for the hero's choice between the genre's more superficial trappings and the righteous quests of the truly chivalrous.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-19DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.62.1.0078
D. Adkins
abstract:Why does Raphael metamorphose in his descent to Eden, and why does Milton initially disguise the metamorphosis as a simile? Though the episode is traditionally considered more Virgilian than Homeric, it is its Homeric dimension that answers these questions. Milton intervenes, I suggest, in the ancient debate on whether Hermes transforms into or merely descends like a gull. But by suggesting and then correcting the simile-reading, Milton also instructs his readers not to read the Bible's metamorphoses like Calvin, whose hermeneutics often resemble those of pagan grammarians, particularly those who read Hermes's likeness to the bird figuratively. By exploring the debates on two descents, that of Hermes and that of the Holy Spirit in the Gospels, I demonstrate how Milton employs Homeric imitation to contest Calvin's theory of accommodation and to present history as more marvelous than myth.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-19DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.62.1.0001
Christopher N. Warren, P. Wiliams, Shruti Rijhwani, M. G'Sell
abstract:Milton's Areopagitica (1644) is one of the most significant texts in the history of the freedom of the press, and yet the pamphlet's clandestine printers have successfully eluded identification for over 375 years. By examining distinctive and damaged type pieces from 100 pamphlets from the 1640s, this article attributes the printing of Milton's Areopagitica to the London printers Matthew Simmons and Thomas Paine, with the possible involvement of Gregory Dexter. It further reveals a sophisticated ideological program of clandestine printing executed collaboratively by Paine and Simmons throughout 1644 and 1645 that includes not only Milton's Areopagitica but also Roger Williams's The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, William Walwyn's The Compassionate Samaritane, Henry Robinson's Liberty of Conscience, Robinson's John the Baptist, and Milton's Of Education, Tetrachordon, and Colasterion.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-19DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.62.1.0159
P. Earle
abstract:This article argues that central to understanding Paradise Regained is Milton's Hebraic monism. By amalgamating the philosophy of Maimonides on prophecy and active intellect with his own, Milton logically answers key questions which, for scholars of the poem, remain unsettled: why does the Son enter the wilderness in the first place? How does he survive here for 40 days, and how, precisely, is paradise regained? For Milton, the Son's obedience and intellectual progress effects the transmutation of his body and heightens the capacity of his active intellect. As an intellectually perfect being, the Son experiences what Maimonides terms "veridical dreams," and this achievement is essential both to his survival and to his regaining paradise. Scholars hitherto have confined Milton's monism to Paradise Lost. This article shows that Maimonides offers new insights to the philosophy, and posits the significance of it for unlocking Paradise Regained.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-19DOI: 10.5325/miltonstudies.62.1.0107
Brendon Bradley
abstract:This article focuses on Adam's perspiration at the scene of his awakening in Paradise Lost, where immediately after his creation he finds himself "In balmy sweat." Milton pointedly rejects the precedent of medieval scholastic writers, who excluded sweat from prelapsarian life and understood the substance as oriented toward death. Instead, Milton presents sweat as necessary to generation and linked to polymorphic birth processes in the garden. In Adam's sweaty body, Milton depicts the first man on the borders of dissolution in order to make sensible the profusion of divine love that Adam experiences in Eden. Ultimately, sweat is a marker of continuity—rather than rupture—between prelapsarian life and the fallen present.
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abstract:Edward Phillips is central to our understanding of Milton’s life due to his role as lead amanuensis during the composition of Paradise Lost. Yet Milton’s nephew has long been considered a failed product of his uncle’s educational method. This article recovers the intellectual dimension of Phillips’s literary and publishing activities and their neglected place in the reception of Paradise Lost as sublime. Enduring claims that Phillips was a Cavalier renegade to Miltonic principles and inveterate plagiarist are shown to be of less interest than how he can be seen to have applied the methods in which he had been schooled.
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abstract:The riddler of the Book of Judges, Samson, is a riddle himself, in the Bible and in Samson Agonistes. Samson’s career can be mapped out in three stages, distinguished by Samson’s different experiences of bondage. In his boisterous heyday, Samson liked to get tied up, burst free of constraints, and erupt into violence. In the time frame of Milton’s drama, Samson finds himself literally blinded, and physically, psychologically, and politically reduced to bondage, to the bestial repetition of slave labor, publicly humiliated by the gazes and taunts of passersby. Søren Kierkegaard’s analysis of the existential dilemma that Abraham faces provides by narrative analogy an interpretive key to the riddle of Samson’s various types of bondage. The final phase of bondage for Milton’s Samson is the appalling yet liberatory one in which he becomes, and acts, like Kierkegaard’s Abraham, a blindly free agent because of his belief in the absurd.
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