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Queer Milton

Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700

von: David L. Orvis
CHF 165.50
Verlag:	Palgrave Macmillan
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	15.10.2018
ISBN/EAN:	9783319970493
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

Queer Milton is the first book-length study dedicated to anti-heteronormative approaches to the poetry and prose of John Milton. Organized into sections on “Eroticism and Form” and “Temporality and Affect,” essays in this volume read Milton’s works through radical queer interpretive frameworks that have elsewhere animated and enriched Renaissance Studies. Leveraging insights from recent queer work and related fields, contributions demonstrate diverse possible futures for Queer Milton Studies. At the same time, Queer Milton bears witness to the capacity for queer to arbitrate debates that have shaped, and indeed continue to shape, developments in the field of Milton Studies.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Rude Milton: Gender, Sexuality, and the Missing Middle of Milton Studies, Erin Murphy.- 2. Queering as Critical Practice in Reading Paradise Lost, Thomas H. Luxon.- 3. Allegories of Breeding: Milton’s Queer Disfigurations, Corey McEleney.- 4. “Overflowing Cups for Amorous Jove”: Abundance and Attraction in Milton’s Elegies, John S. Garrison.- 5. Eros and Anteros: Queer Mutuality in The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, David L. Orvis.- 6. “Fellowships of Joy”: Angelic Union in Paradise Lost, Stephen Guy-Bray.- 7. Virtual or Immediate Touch: Queer Adaptations of Paradise Lost in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Lara Dodds.- 8. “What Hath Night to Do with Sleep?”: Religion and Biopolitics in Milton’s Mask, Melissa E. Sanchez.- 9. What Happened Last Night: Shameful Memories and Miltonic Nationhood, Kyle Pivetti.- 10. Dagon as Queer Assemblage: Effeminacy and Terror in Samson Agonistes, Drew Daniel.- 11. Milton’s Queer Earth: A Geology of Exhausted Life, Steven Swarbrick.

Autorenportrait

<div>David L. Orvis is Professor of English at Appalachian State University, USA. He is co-editor of Psalms in the Early Modern World (2011) and The Noble Flame of Katherine Philips: A Poetics of Culture, Politics, and Friendship (2015). </div>

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Sonderbeitrag

Advances queer studies of Milton to challenge the dominant interpretations Contributes to a movement within Early Modern and Renaissance literature to broaden interpretive frameworks Brings together the best work in queer early modern studies

Unpublished endorsement

“This collection offers a welcome set of queer interventions in Milton studies. As its contributors depart from varying coordinates within queer theory to bring the field’s concerns with sex, language, time, affect, the environment, and beyond into conversation with Milton’s works, the volume generates not one but many queer and queered Miltons. In addition to exemplifying how Milton repays queer reading, the essays gathered here show how Milton can open up new and exciting pathways in early modern queer studies.” (James M. Bromley, Associate Professor of English, Miami University, USA)“Orvis has done a remarkable job gathering contributors and putting together what will surely be an influential volume. Queer Milton offers an original, smart, and very timely contribution to Milton studies, utilizing the kind of broad, deep, and sophisticated exploration of queer methodologies in relation to Milton’s works that is very much needed.” (Catharine Gray, Associate Professor of English, University of Illinois, USA)“This is a volume both long overdue and ahead of its time. Noting the relative absence of Milton scholarship informed by queer studies, the authors bring the field up to speed. But also, and more importantly, they engage in fresh, lively criticism informed by, and informing, categories currently at play in queer theory: affect, the body and intimacy, alterity and ipseity. Covering works early and late, in verse and in prose, this collection offers us several queer Miltons—and beckons for more to be uncovered.” (Feisal G. Mohamed, CUNY Graduate Center, USA)