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9:20pm Parallel Panels 33a. Paradise Lost, Comparative Views Rm 15305
Chair: Beverley Sherry, University of Sydney
Poetic Pleasure and Temperate Reading in Areopagitica and Paradise Lost
-Sara Saylor, University of Texas
The Limits of Worst in Paradise Lost and King Lear
-Daniel Shore, Georgetown University
Melancholic Imagery in Paradise Lost, Book V and Il Penseroso
-Wataru Sasakawa, Kitami Institute of Technology
3b. Milton and the Romantic Tradition Rm 15306
Chair: Blaine Greteman, University of Iowa
"The Clouded Ruins of a God" or: Why Milton's Satan became a Romantic Hero
-Evan Labuzetta, Independent Scholar
"Life to him would be death to me": The Romantic Struggle against the Miltonic Legacy in John Keat's "Hyperion"
-Mie Gotoh, Fukuoka University of Education
Points of Contact: Nature in Milton's Paradise Lost and Wordsworth's Nature
-Hiroko Tsuji, Doshisha Women's University
3c. Miltom, Race, and Modernity Rm 15309
Chair: Bill Goldstein, Hunter College CUNY
Rendering Milton's Black Sisterhood Visible
-Reginald A. Wilburn, University of New Hampshire
The Modern Media, Memory, and Milton: Modern Technology's Positive Trivialisation of John Milton
-Michelle Zappa, University of Exeter
Voicings of Dominion in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Toni Morrison's A Mercy
-Bill Fitzhenry, California Polytechnic State University
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10:50am Coffee Break Lobby (Blg. 15, 3rd Floor)
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11:20am Plenary Session 2 Goucher Memorial Chapel
Chair: Stephen Fallon, University of Notre Dame
Milton and the Politics of Jesus: From Regicide to Restoration
-John Coffey, University of Leicester
Milton: The Muse, the Spirit, the Prophets, and Prophetic Poetry
Barbara Lewalski, Harvard University
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12:50pm Lunch Break
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2:10pm Parallel Panels 4
4a. Paradise Lost: Materiality, Change and Reproduction Rm 15305
Chair: Margaret Kean, University of Oxford
Is "a Spirit" Incorporeal or Corporeal? The Materiality of God in Paradise Lost
-Kazunori Kawasaki, Nihon University
"For change delectable": Mutability and Change in Milton's Paradise Lost
-Larisa Kocic-Zambo, University of Szeged
"How Human Life Began": Human Reproduction in Paradise Lost
-Thomas Luxon, Dartmouth College
4b. Milton and 17th-Century Engagments Rm 15306
Chair: Noam Flinker, University of Haifa
Milton’s Reading and the Early Modern Study of History
-Thomas Fulton, Rutgers University
Edward King and England's Wolfish Institutions: Concealed Satire in "Lycidas"
-Michael Gadaleto, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Property in Paradise?: The Problem of Labour in Milton and Locke
-Taihei Hanada, University of Exeter
4c Samson Agonistes in Performance Rm 15309
Chair: William Shullenberger, Sarah Lawrence College
Samson Agonistes as a Japanese Noh Play
-Hiroko Sano, Aoyama Gakuin University
Milton’s Use of the Classical Messenger Scene in Samson Agonistes
-Stella P. Revard, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
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3:40pm Tea Break Lobby (Blg. 15, 3rd Floor)
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4:00pm Parallel Panels 5
5a. Paradise Lost: Emotions Rm 15305
Chair: Christophe Tournu, University of Strasbourg
Dread in Paradise Lost
-Ken Hiltner, University of California, Santa Barbara
5b. Milton, Romance, and Marriage Room 15306
Chair: Mandy Green, University of Durham
Milton and the Pleasures of Romance
-Steven Zwicker, Washington University
Milton, Polygamy, and the Orient
-Walter Swee Huat Lim, National University of Singapore
Milton, Marriage, and Myth in Anne Manning’s The Maiden and Married Life of Mary Powell
-Gregory Semenza, University of Connecticut
5c. Contrasts in Paradise: Discipline and Derrida Rm 15309
Chair: Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University
Discipline in Paradise: Milton and the Disciplinary Sphere
-Kenneth Graham, University of Waterloo
Abominable Monstrosity: Derrida and Paradise Lost
-Luiz F. F. Sa, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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7:00pm Noh Play National Noh Theatre (Sendagaya)
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