Duran - A Concise Companion to Milton

This series offers accessible, innovative approaches to major areas of literary study. Each volume provides an indispensable companion for anyone wishing to gain an authoritative understanding of a given period or movements intellectual character and contexts.

Angelica Duran

To harp-fingered Jacqueline and mild-eyed Paul

2007 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

except for editorial material and organization 2007 by Angelica Duran

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First published 2007 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

1 2007

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A concise companion to Milton / edited by Angelica Duran.

p. cm.(Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-2271-9 (hardback : alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 1-4051-2271-4 (hardback : alk. paper)

1. Milton, John, 16081674Criticism and interpretation. I. Duran,

Angelica. II. Series.

PR3588.C59 2006

821.4dc22

2006006917

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Paul Alpers (1953 B.A., 1959 Ph.D. English, Harvard). His first book, The Poetry of the Faerie Queene (1967), remains a must-read; and his most recent one, What is Pastoral? (1996), well earned three prestigious prizes: a Guggenheim Fellowship to fund its research, and the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa and the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association to recognize its merits. Paralleling his distinguished publishing career, he has earned teaching awards and the undying gratitude of his former students, including this volumes editor, teaching Elizabethan and seventeenth-century literature from 1962 to 2000 at the University of California at Berkeley, where he is Class of 1942 Professor Emeritus. Having relocated from the west coast to the east coast to Smith College, he is now Professor-in-Residence, and his wife, Carol Christ, is President.

Juliet Lucy Cummins (1994 L.L.B., 1995 B.A. English, 2001 Ph.D. English, University of Sydney). She lectured in English and Law at the University of Western Sydney from 2000 to 2003 and has been an adjunct fellow in Law at that university since 2004. She held the position of Research Associate to the President of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal of New South Wales in 2004 and 2005, and is now practicing law part-time, working as an independent scholar, and looking after her three children, James, Oliver, and Harriet. She edited and contributed to a collection of essays called Milton and the Ends of Time (2003), and is co-editor of another collection of essays, Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England, which is forthcoming. She also writes in the areas of administrative and privacy law.

Angelica Duran (1987 B.A. English with Spanish minor, 1988 M.A. English, University of California at Berkeley; 2000 Ph.D. English, Stanford). Her English and Comparative Literature courses at Purdue University reflect the research concerns of her first book projects, The Age of Milton and the Scientific Revolution (2007) and studies of Miltonic influence in Hispanophone literature. These and other shorter projects reveal her interest in showing points of unity between groups that are often seen as antagonistic and oppositional, and in extending the readership of seventeenth-century literary texts. Having been born and schooled in California, she (nevertheless and thoroughly) enjoys living in the US Midwest during the school year with her husband Sean, daughter Jacqueline, and son Paul, and traveling nationally and internationally in the summers, most recently to Costa Rica, Mexico, Spain, and Thailand.

Karen L. Edwards (1973 B.A. English and Comparative Literature, Brown; 1978 M.A., M.Phil., 1979 Ph.D. English, Yale). After teaching for 12 years at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, she moved to England and is now a Senior Lecturer in the School of English at Exeter University. There she teaches courses on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature in general, and on Milton, Shakespeare, and the Bible and Literature in particular. Her first book is Milton and the Natural World (1999) and she has just finished a study of the animals that have a presence in Miltons poetry and prose. Entitled Miltons Reformed Animals: An Early Modern Bestiary, the book is being published as a series of special issues of Milton Quarterly. By what seems an inevitable progression, she is now working on a study of early modern insults.

Katsuhiro Engetsu (1980 B.A., 1982 M.A. English, Doshisha; 1985 M.A. English, Indiana University). Professor of English at Doshisha University (Japan), he has contributed chapters to Milton and the Terms of Liberty (2002) and The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden (2004), and translated into Japanese Roy Strongs Renaissance Garden in England and Christopher Hills Collected Essays. He has written extensively on early modern British literature and history in both English and Japanese in order to examine the politics of reading and misreading in intercultural issues. He teaches British literature as well as translation theory to his undergraduate and graduate students in Kyoto, one of the most historic cities of Japan, where he lives with his wife and two daughters. He often travels internationally to join academic conferences, most recently invited by the Wordsworth Trust to give a lecture on Milton and the Romantics.

J. Martin Evans