Corns - A New Companion to Milton

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THOMAS N. CORNS

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Sharon Achinstein is Sir William Osler Professor of Renaissance Literature at Johns Hopkins University. In recent years her work on Milton has concentrated on issues concerning marriage, divorce, gender, and the family. She is editor of Milton's Divorce Tracts for The Complete Works of Milton and has authored Milton and the Revolutionary Reader (1994), an award-winning study of the pamphlet culture and political communication of the English Revolution, and Literature and Dissent in Milton's England (2003). With Elizabeth Sauer, she co-edited Milton and Toleration (2007), which won the Irene Samuel Award from the Milton Society of America.

Amy Boesky is Professor of English at Boston College, where she directs the minor in Medical Humanities, Health, and Culture. She is author of Founding Fictions: Utopias in Early Modern England (1996) and various articles on Milton in journals, including Milton Studies, SEL, and Modern Philology. Her recent work has focussed on representations of illness in literature; she has published a memoir, What We Have (2010) and edited a collection of personal essays, The Story Within: Personal Essays on Genetics and Identity (2013).

Cedric C. Brown is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Reading and founder editor, now co-editor, of the long-running book series Early Modern Literature in History. Most of his work of the past few years has led to a forthcoming book on The Discourses of Friendship in the Seventeenth Century. Recent publications also include studies of recusant manuscripts, letters, and gift-texts, and of Milton's friendship with Charles Diodati.

Thomas N. Corns is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Bangor University. His recent publications include John Milton and the Manuscript of De Doctrina Christiana (2007, with Gordon Campbell, John K. Hale, and Fiona Tweedie); A History of Sevententh-Century English Literature (2007); and John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought (2008, with Gordon Campbell). He edited The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley (2009, with Ann Hughes and David Loewenstein); and The Milton Encyclopedia (2012). With Gordon Campbell, he is the general editor of The Complete Works of John Milton (2008).

Martin Dzelzainis is Professor of Renaissance Literature and Thought at the University of Leicester. He is currently editing the Histories for