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Contents
Acknowledgements
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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Notes
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Acknowledgements
The help and encouragement of many people have made this conference possible. We would like to
thank the Standing Committee of the International Milton Symposium for support and advice
throughout the planning of the conference. Special thanks are due to Thomas Corns and Gordon
Campbell for their willingness to answer a constant stream of questions, and to Gordon for his expert
negotiations over the concert programme of the Tallis Scholars.
To John Leonard, for help behind the scenes, we offer particularly warm thanks.
We acknowledge with gratitude the sponsorship provided by the Milton Society of America and
Gazelle Press, Milton Studies, Milton Quarterly, and Oxford University Press.
We would like to thank our colleagues in the English Department of Exeter University for help at
crucial junctures, especially Edward Paleit and Henry Power, Chloe Preedy, Johanna Harris, Felicity
Henderson, Margaret Yoon, Pascale Aebischer, Briony Frost, Jo Gill, and Andrew McRae.
Thanks, too, to Sandi Smith and Andrew Thorpe in the College of Humanities, Exeter University, for
their assistance in getting the conference planning off the ground, and to Naome Glanville for her
invaluable help with publicity for the Tallis Scholars concert.
For all aspects of design, including the programme and programme cover, the badges, the posters
for the conference and for the Tallis Scholars concert, we are warmly grateful to Richard Carter, who
donated his talent and time to us with the most exceptional generosity.
We find it difficult to imagine how we could have managed without the help of our student interns,
Holly Lamb and Christina Ryan, who handled a range of tasks too numerous and varied to list within
the limits of this page.
Finally, it is not an exaggeration to say that without Philippa Earle and Mandy Bedford, this
conference would not have been possible at all. To them goes our heartfelt gratitude for their
unstinting hard work, organizational brilliance, and capacity for laughter. It has been a privilege to
work with them.
Karen Edwards and Philip Schwyzer
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Programme
Monday, 20 July
9.30-10.45
REGISTRATION and COFFEE
Forum Street
10.45-12.00
PLENARY ADDRESS
Chair: Karen Edwards (Exeter University)
Forum Alumni Auditorium
Mary Nyquist (University of Toronto)
‘“Knee-tribute” and Servility’
12.00-1.00
Lunch
1.00-2.30
PARALLEL PANELS 1
Forum Street
1a. Erotic Milton
Chair: Nicholas McDowell (University of Exeter)
Forum seminar room 1/2
Julie Gafney (CUNY Graduate Center)
‘The Erotics of Eden: Rehabilitating Augustine in the Garden’
Hiroko Sano (Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo)
‘The Carpe Diem Theme in Milton and Herrick’
Nicholas Von Maltzahn (Ottawa University)
‘Nothing Loath: or Eve’s Excellent New Romance’
1b. Milton’s Latin Poetry
Chair: John Hale (Otago University)
Forum seminar room 3
Robert Dulgarian (Emerson University)
‘“Naturam non pati senium”, “De idea Platonica”, and the Act
Verse Genre Reconsidered’
John Garrison (Carroll University)
‘Horatian Melancholy in Elegia Quinta’
William Shullenberger (Sarah Lawrence College)
‘Ambition and Sincerity in Milton’s “Epitaphium Damonis”‘
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1c. Mutual Influence: Milton, Marvell, Clarendon, Nedham
Forum seminar room 4
Chair: Timothy Raylor (Carleton College)
Ben Faber (Redeemer University College)
‘Paradise Lost Transpros’d: Andrew Marvell Asserts
Eternal Providence’
David Lee Vaughan (Oklahoma State University)
‘The Politics of John Milton and the Rhetoric of
Marchamont Nedham’
Andrea Walkden (Queens College, CUNY)
‘The Tongue of Belial: Milton’s Devils and
Clarendon’s Courtiers’
1d. Milton and Reform of the Church (1)
Chair: Neil Forsyth (University of Lausanne)
Forum seminar room 5
Tobias Gregory (Catholic University of America)
‘Did Milton Have an Erastian Phase?’
Nanami Kobayashi (Doshisha University)
‘The Tithe Controversy and Milton’s Voice in 1659’
Walter Lim (National University of Singapore)
‘Church and Temple in Milton’s The Reason of Church
Government’
2.30-3.30
SPECIAL SESSION 1
Forum Alumni Auditorium
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online
(illustrated by reference to the Oxford Milton)
Chair: Gordon Campbell (University of Leicester)
3.30-3.45
Tea
Forum Street
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3.45-5.15
PARALLEL PANELS 2
2a. Milton and the Reform of the Church (2)
Chair: Gordon Campbell (University of Leicester)
Forum seminar room 1/2
Jonathan Harris (Trinity Grammar School, Sydney)
‘The Long Reformation’
Nicholas McDowell (University of Exeter)
‘1637: Milton’s ‘Radicalization’ and Intellectual Biography’
Catherine Gimelli Martin (University of Memphis)
‘Why Milton Entered the Battle against the Bishops
(1640-42)’
2b. Milton and 19th Century Appropriations
Chair: Angelica Duran (Purdue University)
Forum seminar room 3
Ian Bickford (Bard Early Colleges)
‘“To Save the Ship”: The Portrait of a Lady and Paradise Lost’
Miriam Mansur (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
‘Machado de Assis and John Milton: Possible Dialogues’
2c. Milton: the Arts and Material Culture
Chair: Louis Schwartz (Richmond University)
Forum seminar room 4
Cedric Brown (University of Reading)
‘Milton and Friends: Gifts, Invitations, and their Very Material
Dimensions’
Wendy Furman-Adams (Whittier College)
‘Eve as Body, Soul, and Place: Paradise Lost Illustrations,
1688-1937’
John Luke Rodrigue (American University in Bulgaria)
‘Paradise Lost in Adaptation: Benjamin Stillingfleet’s
Georgic Eden (1760)’
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2d. Milton’s Angels (1)
Chair: Feisal Mohamed (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Forum seminar room 5
Katsuhiro Engetsu (Doshisha University)
‘Milton’s Communion and War with Angels in Paradise Lost’
Zoe Hawkins (University of Exeter)
‘What Are Wings for in Paradise Lost?’
Evan LaBuzetta (Independent Scholar)
‘Angelic Intelligence and Human Culpability in Paradise Lost’
5.15-6.45
PARALLEL PANELS 3
3a. Milton and Republicanism
Chair: Martin Dzelzainis (University of Leicester)
Forum seminar room 1/2
Rosanna Cox (University of Kent)
‘“Perpetual Servants and Drudges”: Milton, Embassy and
[Re]Public[an] Service’
Andrew Fleck (University of Texas, El Paso)
‘Milton’s English Commonwealth and the Dutch Republic’
John D. Staines (John Jay College, CUNY)
‘Satan and the Creation of a Republican Sublime and a
Republican Subjectivity’
3b. Milton’s Body
Chair: Stephen Fallon (University of Notre Dame)
Gregory Chaplin (Bridgewater State College)
‘Milton’s Beautiful Body’
Amrita Dhar (University of Michigan)
‘Writing Blind’
John Rumrich (University of Texas)
‘Quick-eyed Milton’
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Forum seminar room 3
3c. Milton in New Worlds
Chair: Karen Edwards (University of Exeter)
Forum seminar room 4
Hyunyoung Cho (George Mason University-Korea)
‘Family in the Age of Mobility: Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667)’
Miklós Péti (Károli Gáspár University, Budapest)
‘Samson, an Unlikely Hero of Socialism’
Elizabeth Sauer (Brock University)
‘Milton and Bunyan: New World Representations and Reception’
3d. Milton and Drama
Chair: Philip Schwyzer (University of Exeter)
Forum seminar room 5
Elizabeth Hodgson (University of British Columbia)
‘Peer Pressure: Milton’s Ludlow Masque and Shakespeare’s
Two Gentlemen of Verona’
J. Aaron Moore (University of Texas)
‘Milton’s “Fantastic” Shakespeare: A Reading of Young Milton’s
Tempter’
Noam Reisner (Tel Aviv University)
‘“To destroy and be destroyed”: The Theatrical Ethics of
Revenge in Samson Agonistes’
6.45
WINE RECEPTION
Reed Hall
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Tuesday, 21 July
9.00-10.30
PARALLEL PANELS 4
Forum seminar room 1/2
4a. Milton and Iconoclasm
Chair: Catherine Gimelli Martin (University of Memphis)
Philip Schwyzer (University of Exeter)
‘Why Milton Was a [Tudor] Iconoclast’
John Rogers (Yale University)
‘Justice, Justification, and the Political Theology of Toleration in
Paradise Lost’
Antoinina Bevan Zlatar (University of Zurich)
‘John Milton, Paradise Lost, and the Perils of Picturing the
Invisible God in Reformation England’
4b. Milton and Aristotle
Chair: Rosanna Cox (University of Kent)
Forum seminar room 3
Ayelet Langer (University of Haifa)
‘Milton’s Aristotelian Now’
Joshua Scodel (University of Chicago)
‘Freedom, Fear, and Adam’s Fall’
Ben LaBreche (University of Mary Washington)
‘The Aristotelian Wife and Agonistic Democracy:
Gender in Milton’s Political Thought’
4c. Milton’s Early Poetry in English
Chair: Stephen Dobranski (Georgia State University)
Melissa Schoenberger (Boston University)
‘“Work us a perpetual peace”: Peaceable Vigilance in the
Nativity Ode’
Louis Schwartz (University of Richmond)
‘“Pierce,” “bout,” and “tie”: Music, Choice, and Reason in
“L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso”‘
Aaron Shapiro (Boston University)
‘Thinking about Unfinished Texts in “Il Penseroso”‘
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Forum seminar room 4
4d. Milton and the Old Testament
Chair: Lara Dodds (Mississippi State University)
Forum seminar room 5
Karen Clausen-Brown (Walla Walla University)
‘“With thee conversing I forget all time”: The Sabbath in
Paradise Lost’
Naya Tsentourou (University of Exeter, Penryn)
‘Savoury Words: Milton and the Metaphor of Manna’
Esther Van Raamsdonk (University of Exeter)
‘Creation in John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) and Joost van
de Vondel’s Adam in Exile (1664) (Adam in Ballingschap)’
10.30-10.45
Coffee
Forum Street
10.45-12.00
PLENARY ADDRESS
Chair: John Rumrich (University of Texas)
Forum Alumni Auditorium
Paul Stevens (University of Toronto)
‘Raphael’s Condescension: Paradise Lost,
Jane Austen, and the Secular Displacement of Grace’
12.00-1.00
Lunch
1.00-2.30
PARALLEL PANELS 5
Forum Street
5a. Milton and the Arab World: Literature, Philosophy, Politics
Forum seminar room 1/2
Chair: Elizabeth Sauer (Brock University)
David Currell (American University of Beirut)
‘Milton and/as World Literature’
Feisal Mohamed (Graduate Center, CUNY)
‘Milton’s Enmity toward Islam and the Intellectus agens’
Islam Issa (University of Birmingham)
‘Areopagitica, Scripture and Freedoms in the Arab World’
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5b. Paradise Regain’d
Chair: Barbara Lewalski (Harvard University)
Forum seminar room 3
Steven Cowser
‘“What dost thou in this World?” (PR IV. 372): “Trouble”some
Elijah in Paradise Regain’d’
Melissa Schubert (Biola University)
‘Milton’s Transformation of “Depth” in Paradise Regained’
Edmund White
‘Dialogue as “Holy Living” Catechism in Paradise Regained’
5c. Milton and Fallen Histories
Chair: Tobias Gregory (Catholic University of America)
Forum seminar room 4
Mandy Green (University of Durham)
‘“Mortal Change”: After the Fall in Paradise Lost’
Nancy Rosenfeld (Max Stern College)
‘John Milton’s Pocket Bible: Paradise Lost Books 11 and 12
and The Souldier’s Pocket Bible’
5d. Milton and the Law
Chair: David Loewenstein (Pennsylvania State University)
Forum seminar room 5
Alison Chapman (University of Alabama, Birmingham)
‘Uncovering Eve: Adam, Judgment, and the Legal Doctrine of
Coverture’
John Leonard (University of Western Ontario)
‘Satan as Con Man: A Handbook for Suckers’
Sara Van Den Berg (Saint Louis University)
‘Unfit for Conversation: The Use of Milton’s Divorce Tract in
Durham v Durham’
2.30-3.30
SPECIAL SESSION 2
Forum Alumni Auditorium
Early Modern Studies: An Open Forum on the Future
of the Academic Book
Chair: Thomas Corns (University of Wales, Bangor)
3.30-3.45
Tea
Forum Street
10
3.45-5.15
PARALLEL PANELS 6
6a. Spirit and Matter
Chair: David Quint (Yale University)
Forum seminar room 3
Philippa Earle (University of Exeter)
‘“Real or Allegoric”: Paradise Regained and Milton’s Monistic
Universe’
Daniel Shore (Harvard University)
‘Books and Persons in Areopagitica’
Daniel Tyler (Oxford University)
‘Figurative Language and Milton’s Style’
6b. Poetics, Cosmography, and Kingship: Milton Studies by Chinese Scholars
Forum seminar room 4
Chair: John Rumrich (University of Texas)
Hong Shen (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou)
‘Lycidas: An Interpretation of John Milton’s Poetics’
Chia-Yin Huang (Chinese Culture University, Taipei)
‘John Milton’s Paradise Lost and the Cosmographic Discourse’
Tianhu Hao (Peking University, Beijing)
‘What Is the Kingly State: John Milton’s Idea of Kingship’
6c. Milton and 21st Century Appropriations
Chair: Gregory Semenza (University of Connecticut)
Forum seminar room 5
Sarah Higinbotham (Georgia Institute of Technology)
‘Milton in Prison’
Margaret Kean (Oxford University)
‘Contemporary Reworkings of Milton’
Raymond-Jean Frontain (University of Central Arkansas)
‘Concealed Solemnities: Miltonic Inversions in Alan Hollinghurst’s
The Folding Star’
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6d. Milton and the Art of Poetry
Chair: Hugh Adlington (University of Birmingham)
Forum seminar room 6
John Creaser (Oxford University)
‘Milton and “the jingling sound of like endings”‘
Stephen Guy-Bray (University of British Columbia)
‘A Poem Nearly Rhyming’
Yuko Noro (CHS, Nihon University)
‘From Paraphrasing “Psalm 114” to Composing Paradise Lost’
5.30
Meeting of the Standing Committee of the International Milton Symposium
Forum seminar room 1/2
7.30
CONCERT: THE TALLIS SCHOLARS
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Exeter Cathedral
Wednesday, 22 July
9.00-10.30
PARALLEL PANELS 7
7a. Roundtable Discussion: Two Cultures? Milton and Newton
Forum seminar room 1/2
Chair: Stephen Dobranski (Georgia State University)
Participants: Stephen Fallon (University of Notre Dame),
Sarah Hutton (York University), Laura Lunger Knoppers
(University of Notre Dame), John Rogers (Yale University),
and Nigel Smith (Princeton University)
7b. Soundscapes in Paradise Lost
Chair: John Creaser (Oxford University)
Forum seminar room 3
Katherine Cox (University of Texas)
‘The Prince of the Air and the Acoustics of Temptation’
Briony Frost (University of Exeter)
‘“Scars of Thunder”: The Sonic Warzone in Paradise Lost’
Seth Herbst (Harvard University)
‘Soundscape and Social Order in Paradise Lost’
7c. Adapting Milton
Chair: Margaret Kean (Oxford University)
Gregory Semenza (University of Connecticut)
‘Fictional Milton: The Poet-Polemicist as Literary Character,
1804–2000’
Eric Brown (University of Maine)
‘Screening Milton in the Twenty-First Century’
Jonathan Olson (University of Liverpool)
‘Paradise Lost and Miltonic Cinema’
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Forum seminar room 4
7d. Milton and Education
Chair: Jameela Lares (University of Southern Mississippi)
Forum seminar room 5
Ryan Netzley (Southern Illinois University)
‘Religious Turning: Conversion, Crisis, and Criticism after
Paradise Lost’
Jeffrey Gore (University of Illinois, Chicago)
‘Who’s Afraid of Vocational Humanism? Milton, Hartlib, and
Ernest Sirluck’s Introduction to the Collected Prose Works’
Timothy Raylor (Carleton College)
‘Education and the End of Learning in Milton’s Tractate’
10.30-10.45
Coffee
Forum Street
10.45-12.00
PLENARY ADDRESS
Chair: Sharon Achinstein (Johns Hopkins University)
Forum Alumni Auditorium
David Quint (Yale University)
‘Milton, Waller, and the End of Eden’
12.00-1.00
Lunch
Forum Street
1.00
EXCURSION TO MONTACUTE HOUSE
(Meet coaches at the bottom of Streatham drive; coach will return from
Montacute at 17.00. National Trust members, please bring proof of
membership).
OR
WALKING TOUR OF EXETER
(12.30: meet in the Forum Alumni Auditorium for a lecture by Professor
Mark Stoyle, University of Southampton. Following self-guided tour,
meet at the Cathedral at 15.45 for a talk).
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Thursday, 23 July
9.00-10.30
PARALLEL PANELS 8
8a. Milton the Scholar
Chair: Edward Jones (Oklahoma State University)
Forum seminar room 1/2
Nicholas Hardy (Cambridge University)
‘Milton among the Scholars: The Case of Lucas
Holstenius and the Barberini Circle’
Sharon Achinstein (Johns Hopkins University)
‘Milton and the Reformers on Divorce: Scholarship,
Ecumenicism and Debate’
Jeffrey Alan Miller (Montclair State University)
‘“Amesius noster”: The Scholars and Scholarship behind
Milton’s De Doctrina Christiana’
8b. The Politics of Poetry
Chair: Neil Keeble (University of Stirling)
Forum seminar room 3
Diana Benet (University of North Texas)
‘Milton and Royalist Literary Ideals’
Andrew S. Brown (Yale University)
‘“The Minstrelsy of Heaven”: Representation, Authority,
and the Politics of Lyric in Paradise Lost’
8c. Rhetoric, Logic, and Grammar
Chair: Paul Davis (University College, London)
Jameela Lares (University of Southern Mississippi)
‘Milton’s Logic in the English Ramist Tradition’
Linda Mitchell (San José State University)
‘Corrected Syntax: Milton at the Hands of 18th- Century
Grammarians’
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Forum seminar room 4
8d. Cultural Translations
Chair: Gordon Campbell (University of Leicester)
Forum seminar room 5
Angelica Duran (Purdue University)
‘Translating Juan Miltón into Spanish’
Christophe Tournu (University of Strasbourg)
‘Chateaubriand, Translator of Paradise Lost (1836):
“A Revolution in the Manner of Translating”?’
Junko Yamada (Ochanomizu University)
‘A Comparative Study of Samson Agonistes and
Samuson-to-Derira (Samson and Delila)’
10.30-10.45
Coffee
Forum Street
10.45-12.00
PLENARY ADDRESS
Chair: Edward Jones (Oklahoma State University)
Forum Alumni Auditorium
Maggie Kilgour (McGill University)
‘Milton after Shakespeare’
12.00-1.00
Lunch
1.00-2.30
PARALLEL PANELS 9
Forum Street
9a. Milton and the 18th Century
Chair: Paul Stevens (University of Toronto)
Hugh Adlington (University of Birmingham)
‘Editing Milton in the Eighteenth Century: Manuscript
Notes for Projected Editions’
Paul Davis (University College, London)
‘A Forgotten Milton Cento by Joseph Addison’
Noel Sugimura (Georgetown University)
‘Adam’s Passionate Failings and the Power of Grace’
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Forum seminar room 3
9b. Spirit and Matter
Chair: John Rogers (Yale University)
Forum seminar room 4
Stephen Fallon (University of Notre Dame)
‘Living Matter in John Milton and Isaac Newton’
Charlotte Nicholls (University of Exeter)
‘Monism and the Soul’
Vanessa Surjadidjaja (University of Connecticut)
‘Created from “His dark materials”: Conceiving Conscience
from Chaos in Paradise Lost’
9c. Writing and Re-writing History
Chair: Andrew McRae (University of Exeter)
Forum seminar room 5
Stephen Dobranksi (Georgia State University)
‘The End of Paradise Lost: Imagery, Memory, and the Son’
Galena Hashhozheva (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich)
‘Extraterrestrials, Pre-Adamites, and the Moscovia’s Unfallen
Nomads’
Colm MacCrossan (University of Exeter)
‘Reducing Hakluyt: Text, Voice, and the Reshaping of
National Memory in A Brief History of Moscovia’
9d. Milton and the Sacred/Demonic Feminine
Chair: Mary Nyquist (University of Toronto)
Sharihan Al-Akhras (Durham University)
‘The Shape before the Gate: Middle-Eastern Imagery of
the Demonised Feminine in Milton’s Paradise Lost’
David Parry (Cambridge University)
‘Divine Gender and the Reintegration of Knowledge
in Milton and Contemporaries’
Claude Stulting (Furman University)
‘Sovereign and Priest of Creation: A Greek Patristic
Reading of Eve in Book 5 of Paradise Lost’
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Forum seminar room 6
2.30-3.30
SPECIAL SESSION 3
Forum seminar room 1/2
Milton in the Classroom: Challenges and Opportunities
Chair: Chloe Preedy (University of Exeter, Penryn)
Student Participants: Tessa Crossley, Catherine Fairfield,
Holly Lamb, Gemma Rhodes, Christina Ryan
3.30-3.45
Tea
3.45-5.15
PARALLEL PANELS 10
Forum Street
10a. Roundtable Discussion: Milton and Puritanism
Forum seminar room 1/2
Participants: Gordon Campbell (University of Leicester),
John Coffey (University of Leicester), Thomas Corns
(University of Wales, Bangor), Catherine Gimelli Martin
(University of Memphis)
10b. Milton’s Angels (2)
Chair: Noel Sugimura (Georgetown University)
Forum seminar room 3
Noam Flinker (University of Haifa)
‘Angelic Slippery Slope: John Dee’s Reputation and Milton’s
Paradise Lost’
Šárka Tobrmanová-Kühnová (Charles University, Prague)
‘Delights and Pitfalls of Intercultural Communication in Milton’s
Paradise’
10c. Milton and the Natural World
Chair: Claude Stulting (Furman University)
Forum seminar room 4
Katarzyna Lecky (Bucknell University)
‘Eve’s Medical Conscience’
Brad Spaulding (Indiana Wesleyan University)
‘Eco-Typology and the Tree of Life in Milton’s Paradise Lost and
Lanyer’s “The Description of Cooke-ham”‘
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10d. Miltonic Intertexts
Chair: Joshua Scodel (University of Chicago)
Forum seminar room 5
Hannah Crawforth (King’s College, London)
‘Milton and Euripides’
Seth Lobis (Claremont McKenna College)
‘Satan, Aquinas, and the Passion of Gratitude’
David Norbrook (Oxford University)
‘Milton and Lucy Hutchinson as Theologians’
5.15-6.45
PARALLEL PANELS 11
11a. Milton and Bondage
Chair: Sharon Achinstein (Johns Hopkins University)
Forum seminar room 1/2
Martin Dzelzainis (University of Leicester)
‘Samson and the Moral Psychology of Slavery’
Marissa Nicosia (Pennsylvania State University, Abington)
‘“Returning to bondage”: Form and History in Milton’s Paradise
Lost and Dryden’s State of Innocence’
Reginald A. Wilburn (University of New Hampshire)
‘Milton, Early African-American Reception, and Influential
Routes along the Triangular Slave Trade’
11b. Milton and Cosmological Speculation
Forum seminar room 3
Chair: Galena Hashhozheva (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich)
Dennis Danielson (University of British Columbia)
‘Milton’s Multiverse’
Lara Dodds (Mississippi State University)
‘The Plurality of Worlds and the Fall in Paradise Lost’
Byung-Eun Lee (Hansung University, Seoul)
‘Milton and Astrology in His Works’
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11c. Satire and Romance
Chair: John Rogers (Yale University)
Forum seminar room 4
Colin Lahive (University College, Dublin)
‘Historicising Romance in Paradise Lost’
Anthony Welch (University of Tennessee)
‘Milton’s “Small Infantry”‘
Karen Edwards (University of Exeter)
‘“All we like sheep”: Milton and Pastoral Polemic’
11d. Milton and the Classical Tradition
Chair: Edward Paleit (University of Exeter)
Forum seminar room 5
Deborah Frick (University of Zurich)
‘“Through their own blind folly”: The Classical Fall
in Milton’s Paradise Lost’
David Loewenstein (Pennsylvania State University)
‘Paradise Lost, Virgil, and the Politics of Contemporary History’
Eric B. Song (Swarthmore College)
‘Paradise Lost and the Poetics of Delay’
7.30
GALA DINNER
University Great Hall
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Friday, 24 July
9.00-10.30
PARALLEL PANELS 12
12a. Scholarly and Material Associates
Chair: David Norbrook (Oxford University)
Forum seminar room 1/2
John Hale (University of Otago)
‘The People of De Doctrina Christiana’
Edward Jones (Oklahoma State University)
‘Miltons in Exeter: Associations and Ramifications’
Barbara Lewalski (Harvard University)
‘Milton on Authorship: Personae and Poet-Characters’
12b. Milton and Richard Baxter
Chair: Thomas Corns (University of Wales, Bangor)
Forum seminar room 3
Neil Keeble (University of Stirling)
‘Richard Baxter’s Milton’
John Coffey (University of Leicester)
‘Milton’s Eikonoklastes and Baxter’s Reliquiae: Writing
the English Revolution’
Johanna Harris (University of Exeter)
‘Milton and Baxter in Their Letters’
12c. Representing the Body
Chair: Elizabeth Hodgson (University of British Columbia)
Forum seminar room 4
Neil Forsyth (University of Lausanne)
‘Hands Up’
Laura Gill (University of Sussex)
‘“Cleaving Together”: Bodily Boundaries in Milton and Swinburne’
Esther Yu (University of California, Berkeley)
‘Tears in Paradise: Touching the Tender Conscience’
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12d. Ordering the Infinite
Chair: John Garrison (Carroll University)
Forum seminar room 5
Mayra Olalquiaga (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
and Luiz Ferreira Sá (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
‘Infinity and Voracity of Lists in Paradise Lost’
Olin Bjork (University of Houston-Downtown)
‘“What’s the Buzz?”: Milton, Pandemonium, and Swarm Intelligence’
10.30-10.45
Coffee
Forum Street
10.45-12.00
PLENARY ADDRESS
Chair: Neil Keeble (University of Stirling)
Forum Alumni Auditorium
Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge University)
‘Moral Biology: Hereditary Sin in Early Modern England’
12.00-1.00
Lunch
1.00-2.30
PARALLEL PANELS 13
Forum Street
13a. Providence and the Holy Spirit
Chair: Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge University)
Forum seminar room 3
David Ainsworth (Grinnell College)
‘Satan the Anti-Spirit: Finding the Holy Spirit in Paradise
Regained’
Warren Chernaik (King’s College, London)
‘“Providence their guide”: Providence and Freedom in Milton’
Clay Greene (University of Alabama)
‘Reason and the Spirit in De Doctrina Christiana’
13b. Milton and Italy
Chair: Christophe Tournu (University of Strasbourg)
Forum seminar room 4
Sarah Van der Laan (Indiana University)
‘Reading Milton Reading Tasso Reading Homer: Gerusalemme
liberata as Intermediary between the Odyssey and Paradise Lost’
Paul Slade (University of Exeter)
‘Translating Italy: Milton’s Relationship with the Canzone’
Antonella Piazza (University of Salerno, Italy)
‘Milton and Naples’
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13c. The Restoration Samson
Chair: Katsuhiro Engetsu (Doshisha University)
Forum seminar room 5
Ann Baynes Coiro (Rutgers University)
‘Ancients and Moderns: The Chorus of Samson Agonistes
and the Long Restoration’
Alex Garganigo (Austin College)
‘Samson the Covenanter’
Brendan Prawdzik (Christian Brothers University)
‘Samson Agonistes: Passion’s Looking-Glass’
2.30-3.30
CLOSING SESSION
Chairs: Karen Edwards (Exeter University)
and Philip Schwyzer (Exeter University)
Forum seminar room 1/2
New Directions for Milton Studies?
Discussion to be led by conferees who are current and
recent postgraduates and new to Milton Symposia.
3.30-3.45
Tea
Forum Street
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