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The governing questions of Milton and the Network of Disability, Embodiment and Care are threefold: What does reading Milton's texts and literature generally through the theoretical lens of disability, embodiment and care studies (DEC) reveal that was illegible before? How have Milton's visual and mobility impairments, as well as his artistic representations of human biodiversity, factored into his status as a canonical author? And what insights does bringing a DEC lens to Milton's body of work and its reception give us into literature and longstanding stereotypes about humans and their cultural and physical environments? The thirteen chapters, Foreword and Afterword of this collection, composed by established and emerging scholars, provide cogent answers by drawing on the contributors' expertise in various fields. The volume advances what Milton's texts from sonnet to epic and political tract to tragedy can tell us about not only literary representations of human variation, physical and mental, but also cultural responses to disability, embodiment and care that affect all readers and all people today.
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Part I. 'A Darksome House of Mortal Clay'
1. 'With wand'ring steps and slow'
Angelica Duran and Pasquale Toscano
2. Milton and disability
Thomas N. Corns
Appendix 1: Milton's Letter to Philaras about his blindness (Epistolae familiares 15), Latin transcription and English translation
Sarah Knight
Part II. 'Spirited with Various Forms'
3. Milton's stammer
Joe Moshenska
4. Incapacity and human life in Paradise Lost, Artis logicae, and De doctrina Christiana
Timothy M. Harrison
5. Milton and the human condition
Elizabeth Sauer
6. The matter of blindness in the Second Defence and Samson Agonistes
Susannah B. Mintz
7. Disability and the drama of Folly in Samson Agonistes
Maura Brady
Part III. 'Gathering Up Limb by Limb'
8. Blind self-governance in Milton's 'Cyriack, This Three Years' Days These Eyes'
Teri Fickling
9. Paradise Regained, prophetic practice, and the Quaker communities of care
Joan Curbet Soler
10. Access, ableism, and accommodation in Samson Agonistes and its Restoration successors
Pasquale Toscano
Part IV. 'Written to Aftertimes'
11. The blind Milton as caretaker, Englishman, and husband on the Spanish stage
Angelica Duran
12. When Tyehimba Jess (re)considers Milton's Sonnet 'When I Consider How My Light Is Spent'
Reginald A. Wilburn
13. Picturing Satan's body in Paradise Lost
John Leonard
Afterword
Georgina Kleege
Index