New Site: The British Milton Seminar
August 12, 2012
The British Milton Seminar now has its own web site. The British Milton Seminar meets twice yearly to discuss papers on subjects relating to John Milton’s life, work and times, together with his legacy and influence. The seminar is open to academic and academic-related staff and to postgraduate students.
Currently available on the site is information regarding their Autumn 2012 program, which takes place on Saturday, October 20, 2012.
APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture
February 25, 2009
W. Scott Howard at the University of Denver writes to Milton-L list members:
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to invite you to visit this year’s electronic conference organized and hosted by APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture,
http://appositions.blogspot.com/
This is a free, open-access event. We welcome your questions and comments in reply to the papers and special events.
At the site, you will find:
Five Papers:
- Eleni Pilla: “Negotiating Romeo and Juliet”
- Jeremy Fiebig: “Everything New is Old Again”
- Ian MacInnes: “Some Gothicq barbarous hand”
- Micah Donohue: “Cities Nowhere but in Words”
- Kathleen A. Ahearn: “How to Cry up Liberty”
Two Events:
- Event A: John Milton E-Variorum
- Event B: Book Reviewing in the Digital Age
We hope you’ll visit the papers and events and offer your questions and statements via the “post a comment” link at the bottom of each document page. All postings will be lightly moderated prior to their appearance.
APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature & Culture, http://appositions.blogspot.com/
LATCH: Volume 1 (November 2008)
December 7, 2008
T. Ross Leasure writes:
I just wanted to let you know that a new on-line journal is now available, Latch: A Journal for the Study of Literary Artifact in Theory, Culture, or History, that features three articles related to Milton studies, accesssible at www.openlatch.com. One of the pieces is my own article, “Yesterday’s Eve and Her Electric Avatar: Villiers’s Debt to Milton’s Paradise Lost.” The others include William Engel’s “John Milton’s Recourse to Old English: A Case-Study in Renaissance Lexicography,” and William Silverman’s “Paradise Lost and the Cultural Genetics of Shame, Remorse, and Guilt.”
Milton with Professor John Rogers
October 20, 2008
Open Yale Courses has just posted Milton with Professor John Rogers, a collection of 24 lectures plus midterm and final exams. The lectures are available as text transcripts, embedded audio, or embedded video (including a closed-captioned edition). Class handouts are available as PDF resources.
The Milton Encyclopedia
March 1, 2008
Yale University Press has commissioned Tom Corns (University of Wales, Bangor) as editor-in-chief of The Milton Encyclopedia, a project announced at the recent IMS7. The project web site is now available, with a detailed plan (publication is planned for 2006/7 but there remains a list of available headwords), notes for contributors and a FAQ.
