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'All that follows to p.50 very indifferent': Richard Hurd Reads Milton, 1751-1800
-Hugh Adlington, University of Birmingham
Is Capitalism a Satanic System?: Satan's Confession in Paradise Lost and the Spirit of Capitalism
-Daisuke Arie, Yokohama National University
When Muslims Read Milton: Paradise Lost and a Religious Shock
-Mahe Nau Awan, University of Surrey
Milton and Lafcadio Hearn
-Joan Blythe, University of Kentucky
Ceremony in Milton's Samson Agonistes and Spinoza's
Theological-Political Treatise
-Karen Clausen-Brown, University of Notre Dame
Paradise Regained: Biblical Harmony and Narrative Dissonance
-Michael Cop, University of Otago
Paradise Redacted: Milton and Methodist Education
-Thomas Dabbs, Aoyama Gakuin University
Milton and the Spanish Catholic Church
-Angelica Duran, Purdue University
When I Consider How Light Is Sent in Paradise Lost
-Katsuhiro Engetsu, Doshisha University
Milton's Reasonable Vision of God and the Spenserian Tradition
-Matthew Evans-Cockle, University of British Columbia
Voicings of Dominion in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Toni Morrison's A Mercy
-Bill Fitzhenry, California Polytechnic State University
Masking Tensions: Homeric Comus Revised as Biblical Lady
-Noam Flinker, University of Haifa
Milton's Bible
-Thomas Fulton, Rutgers University
Edward King and England's Wolfish Institutions: Concealed Satire in Lycidas
-Michael Gadaleto, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Comus and the Trial of Liturgy
-David Gay, University of Alberta
“Life to him would be death to me”: The Romantic Struggle against the Miltonic Legacy in John Keats’s Hyperion
-Mie Gotoh, Fukuoka University of Education
Discipline in Paradise
-Kenneth Graham, University of Waterloo
“Joy and harmles pastime”: Milton’s Rehabilitation of Otium
-Mandy Green, University of Durham
Milton and Cromwell: Another Look at the Evidence
-Tobias B. Gregory, Catholic University of America
"Me thou think'st not slow": Contemporaneous Time in Paradise Lost
-Blaine Greteman, University of Iowa
Editing De Doctrina Christiana from the Manuscript, 2012
-John Hale, University of Otago (Read by Michael Cop)
Property in Paradise?: The Problem of Labour in Milton and Locke
-Taihei Hanada, Takushoku University
Milton in China, 1837-1911
-Tianhu Hao, Peking University
Critical Mass: The Influence of Addison on Bentley
-David A. Harper, University of Texas
To Read Milton's Work Through Japanese Sensibility
-Rie Hase, Tohoku University, Tokyo
The Reception of Samson Agonistes in Coleridge
-Takehiro Hashimoto, Kanto Gakuin University
Usury and Custom in Milton's Thought
-David Hawkes, Arizona State University
Milton and Music
-Seth Herbst, Harvard University
The Law’s Violence in Paradise Lost
-Sarah Higinbotham, Georgia State University
Dread in Paradise Lost
-Ken Hiltner, University of California, Santa Barbara
Milton in Arabic: Transforming Paradise Lost for the Arab-Muslim Reader
-Islam Issa, University of Birmingham
John Milton and the Hearth Tax: New Records and New Possibilities
-Edward Jones, Oklahoma State University
Milton's Ideal Place in Arcades, Epitaphium Damonis and the Garden of Eden
-Yae Kanasaki, Kinki University
Is "a Spirit" Incorporeal or Corporeal?: The Materiality of God in Paradise Lost
-Kazunori Kawasaki, Nihon University
Is Milton a Pacifist?
-Nobuhiro Kawashima, Ryukoku University
Placing the Presbyter: Milton and Marvell
-Margaret Kean, University of Oxford
Milton's Contra-pair Sonnets: "To the Lord General Cromwell" and "To Sir Henry Vane the Younger"
-Nanami Kobayashi, Doshisha University
"The Clouded Ruins of a God" or: Why Milton's Satan
Became a Romantic Hero
-Evan LaBuzetta, Independent Scholar
Milton and McTaggart: Time Structures of the Mind in Paradise Lost
-Ayelet Langer, University of London
Lexical Choice in John Milton's Artis Logicae Plenior Institutio (1672)
-Jameela Lares, The University of Southern Mississippi
A Study of Typology in Milton's "Nativity Ode"
-Byung-Eun Lee, Hansung University, Seoul
Milton, Polygamy, and the Orient
-Walter Swee Huat Lim, National University of Singapore
Milton's Garden and the Language of Georgic
-Seth Lobis, Claremont McKenna College
Religious Schism, Separation, and Uniformity in Paradise Lost
-David Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"How Human Life Began": Human Reproduction in Paradise Lost
-Thomas Luxon, Dartmouth College
The Baroque Body and Milton's Lady
-Talya Meyers, Stanford University
Fame and Exile: Ovid's Tristia in Milton's Poems
-Michiko Mori, Otemae University
"He also saw rich Mexico": Translating Milton's Political Prose in(to) the Seat of Montezuma
-Mario Murgia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Is Milton's Eden Truly a "Natural" Garden? --From the Viewpoint of the Japanese Concept of Shizen
-Osamu Nakayama, Reitaku University
"Paradise within": Religion and Politics in the Works of Milton and Herbert
-Fahimeh Naseri, University of Newcastle
What Happens in Sonnets: Considering Events in Milton’s Sonnets
-Ryan Netzley, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Restoring the Poetics of Transcendence: A Study of Tadao Yanaihara's Lectures on Paradise Lost
-Kensei Nishikawa, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
Shitsurakuen-monogatari (The Story of Paradise Lost) and Paradise Lost
-Yuko Noro, Nihon University
Two Nineteenth-Century Forgeries of a Paradise Lost Title-Page
-Jonathan Olson, University of Liverpool
Journeys in Paradise Lost: Motion and Mapping of New Spaces
-Antonella Piazza, University of Salerno
Paradise Founded: Milton and Wesleyan Education in Japan
-Wayne Pounds, Aoyama Gakuin University
"The Law I Gave to Nature": The Aporetic Proclamation of Natural Law in Paradise Lost
-Bjorn Quiring, Ludwig Maximilians University
Desire and the Poetics of the Flesh in Paradise Lost
-Noam Reisner, Tel Aviv University
Archbishop Laud as Haman, Queen Henrietta Maria as Vashti: or, Why the Reverend Henry Burton Lost His Ears in 1637
-Carter Revard, Washington University
Milton’s Use of the Classical Messenger Scene in Samson Agonistes
-Stella P. Revard, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
"And Lichas from the top of Oeta threw": The Effect of Parallel Prose Editions on the Syntax of Paradise Lost
-Peter Roccia, Grant MacEwan University
Samson Agonistes as a Japanese Noh Play
-Hiroko Sano, Aoyama Gakuin University
Melancholic Imagery in Paradise Lost
-Wataru Sasakawa, Kitami Institute of Technology
Poetic Pleasure and Temperate Reading in Areopagitica and Paradise Lost.
Sara Saylor, University of Texas
Milton's Mountain Nymph and Pastoral Liberties
-Joshua Scodel, University of Chicago
Milton, Marriage, and Myth in Anne Manning’s The Maiden and Married Life of Mary Powell
-Gregory Semenza, University of Connecticut
Leveling the Sublime: Translating Milton into English in the Eighteenth Century
-Aaron Shapiro, Boston University
Galileo and the Tuscan Artist: Two Perspectives of Milton’s Cosmos in Paradise Lost 7 and 8
-Valerie Shepard, University of California, Los Angeles
Toward a Semiotics of Smell in Paradise Lost
-Lauren Shohet, Villanova University
The Limits of Worst in Paradise Lost and King Lear
-Daniel Shore, Georgetown University
"Somebody’s Fool": Samson and the Absurd
-William Shullenberger, Sarah Lawrence College
“Unspeakable desire to see, and know": The Private and Public Spaces of Milton’s 1671 Poems
-Eric B. Song, Swarthmore College
Sublime Violence in Milton's Republican Sonnets
-John D. Staines, John Jay College, City University of New York
Repetition, Repentance, and Passionate Sublimity in Paradise Lost
-Noel Sugimura, Georgetown University
Milton and Dryden: The Heritage of the English Republic
-Go Togashi, Ferris University
Anne-Marie du Boccage’s “Le Paradis terrestre” (1748) as a Model of Cultural Transfer through Translation
-Christophe Tournu, University of Strasbourg
Points of Contact: Nature in Milton's Paradise Lost and Wordsworth's Nature
-Hiroko Tsuji, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts
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