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Milton criticism often treats the poet as if he were the last of the Renaissance poets or a visionary prophet who remained misunderstood until he was read by the Romantics. At the same time, literary histories of the period often invoke a Long Eighteenth Century that reaches its climax with the French Revolution or the Reform Bill of 1832. What gets overlooked in such accounts is the rich story of Milton's relationship to his contemporaries and early eighteenth-century heirs. The essays in this collection demonstrate that some of Milton's earliest readers were more perceptive than Romantic and twentieth-century interpreters. The translations, editions, and commentaries produced by early eighteenth century men of letters emerge as the seedbed of modern criticism and the term 'neoclassical' is itself unmasked as an inadequate characterization of the literary criticism and poetry of the period—a period that could brilliantly define a Miltonic sublime, even as it supported and described all the varieties of parody and domestication found in the mock epic and the novel. These essays, which are written by a team of leading Miltonists and scholars of the Restoration and eighteenth century, cover a range of topics—from Milton's early editors and translators to his first theatrical producers; from Miltonic similes in Pope's Iliad to Miltonic echoes in Austen's Pride and Prejudice; from marriage, to slavery, to republicanism, to the heresy of Arianism. What they share in common is a conviction that the early eighteenth century understood Milton and that the Long Restoration cannot be understood without him.
Contents
List of Figures
Note on the Text and List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Blair Hoxby: Introduction. Why Milton in the Long Restoration
I. RECEPTION AND INTERPRETATION
1: Denise Gigante: Milton's Spots: Addison on Paradise Lost
2: David A. Harper: Critical Mass: Contextualizing Bentley's Paradise Lost
3: N. K. Sugimura: 'A Fine Paradisaical Notion': Materialism and Readings of Paradise Lost in the 'Long Restoration'
4: Blair Hoxby: 'In the Dun Air Sublime': Milton, the Richardsons, and the Invention of Aesthetic Categories
II. THE DRAMATIC AND THEATRICAL MILTON
5: Ann Baynes Coiro: Milton's Essay of Dramatic Poesy: Samson Agonistes,
6: Catherine Gimelli Martin: John Dennis, John Locke, and the Sublimation of Revolt: Samson Agonistes after the Glorious Revolution,
7: Blaine Greteman: 'To Secure Our Freedom': How A Mask Presented at Ludlow-Castle Became Milton's Comus,
8: Ruth Smith: Milton Modulated for Handel's Music,
III. LINEAL DESCENTS AND CLANS
9: Steven N. Zwicker: John Dryden Meets, Rhymes, and Says Farewell to John Milton: A Restoration Drama in Four Scenes,
10: Laura L. Knoppers: 'I Still Deny'd, Much Pleas'd to Hear You Sue': Milton's Eve, Ovid, and the Restoration Coquette,
11: Dustin D. Stewart: Angel Bodies to Whig Souls: Blank Verse after Blenheim,
12: Christopher R. Miller: Yet Once More: Milton's Lyric Descendants,
13: Sophie Gee: Milton's Pope,
IV. CONDITIONS OF LIBERTY
14: Gregory Chaplin: The Circling Hours: Revolution in Paradise Regained,
15: Martin Dzelzainis: 'In Power of Others, Never in My Own': The Meaning of Slavery in Samson Agonistes,
16: Nicholas von Maltzahn: Milton and the Restoration Literae,
17: Stephen M. Fallon: Milton, Newton, and the Implications of Arianism,
18: Mary Nyquist: Friday as Fit Help,
V. WIDER WORLDS
19: Sharon Achinstein: Early Modern Marriage in a Secular Age: Beyond the Sexual Contract,
20: Nigel Smith: Haak's Milton,
21: Jason Peacey: Miltonic Texts and European Politics, 1674-1682,
22: Anne-Julia Zwierlein: Purging the Visual Nerve: Exploration, 'Revelation', and Cosmography in Milton Commentaries and Criticism of the Long Restoration,
23: Steven Pincus: Some Thoughts on Periodization: John Milton to Adam Smith and Beyond,
VI. EPIC, MOCK EPIC, AND THE NOVEL
24: John Leonard: Milton, the Long Restoration, and Pope's Iliad,
25: Anthony Welch: Paradise Lost and English Mock Heroic,
26: Joanna Picciotto: Milton and the People,
27: Michael McKeon: Paradise Lost in the Long Restoration, 1660-1742: The Parody of Form,
28: Paul Stevens: Raphael's Condescension: Paradise Lost, Jane Austen, and the Secular Displacement of Grace,
VII. MILTON'S LIVES
29: Jayne Lewis: 'His Ears Now Were Eyes to Him': The Lives of Milton in the Long Restoration,
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