Women (Re)Writing Milton (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)

This volume of essays reconfigures the reception history of Milton and his works by bringing to the fore women reading, writing, and rewriting Milton, bringing together in conversation a range of voices from diverse historical, cultural, religious, and social contexts across the globe and through the centuries. The book encompasses a rich range of different literary genres, artistic media, and academic disciplines and draws on the research of established Milton scholars and new Miltonists. Like the female authors and artists whom they explore, the contributors take up a variety of standpoints. As well as revisiting the work of established figures, the volume brings new female creative artists, new subjects, and new approaches to the study of Milton. Cover Endorsement Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of contents Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments A Note on the Text Introduction: A Life Beyond Life: Milton’s Afterlives I II Notes Part I Early Responses by English Women Writers 1 Lucy Hutchinson’s Irrepressible Eve Eve’s Creation Eve’s Fall Eve’s Lament and Growth Eve and the Curse of Maternity Conclusions Notes 2 ‘Soaring in the High Region of her Fancies’: The Female Poet and the Cosmic Voyage Notes 3 ‘Two Great Sexes Animate the World’: Laying the Spectre of ‘Milton’s Bogey’ in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein I II III IV V VI Notes Part II Global Perspectives: Biographies, Translations, Novels, and the Internet II.1 Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Responses 4 The Return of William Wells Brown: A Heroic Black Miltonist in Elizabeth Josephine Brown’s Miltonic Biography of Her Father Notes 5 Emilia Pardo Bazán and Milton’s Spanish Afterlife Milton in the Nineteenth Century Pardo Bazán’s Canonization of Epic Author Milton Notes 6 ‘I Am Not “Masculine” I Am Weak’: Ágnes Nemes Nagy’s Translation of Sonnet 23 Notes II.2 Contemporary Responses 7 Milton’s Domestic Life and Tempered Female Ambition in Kim Wilkins’ Angel of Ruin Different Deborahs In Pursuit of Knowledge: Deborah’s (Un)Told Tale ‘Growing Up to Godhead’: Rewriting Paradise Lost Notes 8 From Hell to Paradise: Miltonic Presences in Beatriz Bracher’s Anatomia do Parais Notes 9 Milton and Arab Female Authorship in the Age of Social Media Early Influence: Translations and Literary Works (Re)Writing the Arab Eve in Print and Online Notes Part III Milton through the Female Gaze III.1 Women Re-reading Milton: Education and Theory 10 Beyond Milton’s Daughters: Dorothy Dury, Lady Ranelagh, and the Question of Female Education Notes 11 ‘Queer Opening’: Eve’s Readers and Writers I II III IV V Notes 12 The ‘Paradise Within’: A Post-Jungian Revisiting of the Feminine in Milton’s Paradise Lost Jung and the Path of Individuation Jung and Misogyny Revisioning Jung Eve as Adam’s Anima Conclusion Notes III.2 Milton Visualized: Digital Media, Art, and Performance 13 Gendered Reflections on an All-Day Reading of Paradise Lost Notes 14 Other Eyes: Women Artists Rewriting Paradise Lost I II III IV Notes 15 Women Directing Milton: Feminist Stagings of Miltonic Seduction Comus A Five-Act Paradise Lost Notes Bibliography Contributors Index "This volume of essays reconfigures the reception history of Milton and his works by bringing to the fore women reading, writing, and rewriting Milton, bringing together in conversation a range of voices from diverse historical, cultural, religious and social contexts across the globe and through the centuries"-- Provided by publisher