High enterprise: Milton and the genres of scholarship in the divorce tracts / Sharon Achinstein -- Typology and Milton's masterplot / Sam Hushagen -- The Devil as teacher in Paradise lost / James Ross Macdonald -- "The first and wisest of them all": Paradise regained and the beginning of thinking / J. Antonio Templanza -- Learning, love, and the freedom of the double bind / Gardner Campbell -- Revisiting Milton's (logical) God: Empson 2015 / Emma Annette Wilson -- God's grammar: Milton's parsing of the divine / Russell Hugh McConnell -- Raphael's Peroratorio in Paradise lost: balancing rhetorical passion in Virgil and Paul / Joshua R. Held -- Euphrasy, rue, polysemy, and repairing the ruins / Emily E. Stelzer -- Paradise finding aids / Nicholas Allred -- Political diplomacy, personal conviction, and the fraught nature of Milton's letters of state / Edward Jones.
Summary:
"Scholarly Milton is a collection of essays concerned with the function of scholarship in both the invention and the reception of Milton's writings in poetry and prose. The eleven essays examine 'scholarly Milton' the writer and 'scholarly Milton' as an established academic discipline"-- Provided by publisher.
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