John Milton: The Milton-L Home Page http://johnmilton.org Devoted to the life, literature, and times of the poet John Milton Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:57:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 SE Milton Seminar, March 15-16 http://johnmilton.org/2013/01/02/se-milton-seminar-march-15-16/ http://johnmilton.org/2013/01/02/se-milton-seminar-march-15-16/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:57:43 +0000 Kevin Creamer http://johnmilton.org/?p=192 The third SE Milton Seminar will take place at the University of Alabama, in Tuscaloosa, Friday March 15th and Saturday March 16th.  Our guest will be Bill Shullenberger.  On Friday at 5 PM, he’ll be presenting “Imagining Eden.”  On Saturday, we’ll be having a seminar discussion of a work in progress, “Ambition and Sincerity in ‘Damon’s Epitaph,’” which will be distributed to attendees by e-mail prior to the event.  The discussion will begin at 1 PM.  Both events will take place in 301 Morgan Hall on the campus of the University of Alabama.

]]> http://johnmilton.org/2013/01/02/se-milton-seminar-march-15-16/feed/ 0 New Site: The British Milton Seminar http://johnmilton.org/2012/08/12/new-site-the-british-milton-seminar/ http://johnmilton.org/2012/08/12/new-site-the-british-milton-seminar/#comments Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:04:50 +0000 Kevin Creamer http://johnmilton.org/?p=187 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.

]]> http://johnmilton.org/2012/08/12/new-site-the-british-milton-seminar/feed/ 0 CFP: Edited anthology, The Historical Contexts of Literary Theory http://johnmilton.org/2011/07/06/cfp-edited-anthology-the-historical-contexts-of-literary-theory/ http://johnmilton.org/2011/07/06/cfp-edited-anthology-the-historical-contexts-of-literary-theory/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:07:34 +0000 Kevin Creamer http://johnmilton.org/?p=185 We are seeking essays about major figures of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries important to literary theory for the edited
anthology The Historical Contexts of Literary Theory.  Extending the
work of Peter C. Herman’s Historicizing Theory (SUNY Press, 2004),
this volume seeks to contextualize the works of prominent
philosophers, psychologists, social scientists, and literary theorists
who have made significant contributions to the rise and development of
literary theory within these authors‚ biographical, cultural,
intellectual, and socio-political history.  Each contribution should
include a brief overview of the major works and ideas of each author,
how those ideas developed over time and have been employed by literary
theory, an overview of the author’s biographical, cultural,
intellectual, and socio-political history, and then a reading of the
author‚s ideas as a response to this history.  We do not seek essays
that either ignore history or reduce an author’s work to its
historical context: we seek essays that approach an author’s work as
an engagement with and response to that history.  We seek essays on
figures from Marx and Freud to the present but are open to proposals
on earlier figures.

Brief CVs and 500 word abstracts should be emailed in Word or .rtf
format to James Rovira by November 1st, 2011.

Editors:
James Rovira, Tiffin University
Sherry Truffin, Campbell University

PS If you are a Restoration/18thC scholar and are interested in being
a co-editor for this project, please email James Rovira.

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]]> http://johnmilton.org/2011/02/20/join-the-milton-society-of-america/feed/ 0 MSA Announces the Albert C. Labriola Award http://johnmilton.org/2011/02/20/msa-announces-the-albert-c-labriola-award/ http://johnmilton.org/2011/02/20/msa-announces-the-albert-c-labriola-award/#comments Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:26:41 +0000 Kevin Creamer http://johnmilton.org/?p=180 The Milton Society of America has announced a new award, The Albert C. Labriola Award, which recognizes a distinguished article on Milton by a graduate student published in a journal or in a multiauthor collection of essays.

Visit the Milton Society’s Awards page for information on this and other awards presented annually by the Society.

]]> http://johnmilton.org/2011/02/20/msa-announces-the-albert-c-labriola-award/feed/ 0 Milton Society: Call for Papers – MLA 2012 http://johnmilton.org/2011/02/20/milton-society-call-for-papers-mla-2012/ http://johnmilton.org/2011/02/20/milton-society-call-for-papers-mla-2012/#comments Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:21:10 +0000 Kevin Creamer http://johnmilton.org/?p=178 The Milton Society of America will sponsor three panels at the 2012 Modern Language Association convention.  For details, please visit the Call for Papers on the Milton Society’s web site.

]]> http://johnmilton.org/2011/02/20/milton-society-call-for-papers-mla-2012/feed/ 0 The Canada Milton Seminar VII http://johnmilton.org/2011/02/07/the-canada-milton-seminar-vii/ http://johnmilton.org/2011/02/07/the-canada-milton-seminar-vii/#comments Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:11:19 +0000 Kevin Creamer http://johnmilton.org/?p=175 The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, The Department of English & The Canada Research Chair Program at the University of Toronto are pleased to present

The Canada Milton Seminar VII

Saturday 23 April 2011

Featuring speakers:

Thomas N. Corns
(University of Wales, Bangor)
“Paradise Lost: The Making of the First Edition”

Natalie Zemon Davis
(Princeton University and University of Toronto)
“Jerusalem Regained: The Learned Converso Nassy and Jewish Colonization”

John Rogers
(Yale University)
“Contingencies of Justice: Milton, Poetry, and Heresy in an Age of Justification”

Other Speakers include Katherine O. Acheson (Waterloo), Bradin Cormack (Chicago), Jeff Miller (Magdalen College, Oxford), and Elizabeth Hanson (Queen’s University, Canada).

A registration form is available.

For information about the seminar please contact Professor Paul Stevens (English) paul.stevens@utoronto.ca
For registration contact Dr. Stephanie Treloar crrs.vic@utoronto.ca

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I’m pleased to announce the publication of Reformation 15 (2010), the first issue under my sole editorship, with Helen Parish editing the Reviews section. The issue is online at our website (http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/Reformation), and print copies should be on their way to libraries and subscribers, and generally available shortly. Contents are listed below.

Submissions are now welcome for vol. 16 (2011) on all topics related to the Reformation period. We continue to be interested in research on aspects of early modern religion, in the fields of history, literature, art history, music, theology, the history of the book, and indeed most fields, but our purview is wide. I encourage scholars to push our envelope! 2011 is the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible, or Authorized Version; lectures, conferences, exhibitions, television and radio programs, publications and other events will commemorate this anniversary on both sides of the Atlantic (for listings see http://www.kingjamesbibletrust.org/). Reformation thus extends a special invitation this year for submissions on early modern Bibles, Bible translation, and the literary and cultural influence of the Bible.

]]> http://johnmilton.org/2011/01/11/reformation-15/feed/ 0 Milton Society of America Web Site http://johnmilton.org/2011/01/06/milton-society-of-america-web-site/ http://johnmilton.org/2011/01/06/milton-society-of-america-web-site/#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:45:55 +0000 Kevin Creamer http://johnmilton.org/?p=170 The Milton Society of America has launched a web site.  Visit http://www.miltonsociety.org/ for information on joining, annual awards and honored scholars, as well as announcements.

]]> http://johnmilton.org/2011/01/06/milton-society-of-america-web-site/feed/ 1 Milton among the Puritans: The Case for Historical Revisionism http://johnmilton.org/2011/01/04/milton-among-the-puritans-the-case-for-historical-revisionism/ http://johnmilton.org/2011/01/04/milton-among-the-puritans-the-case-for-historical-revisionism/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:04:41 +0000 Kevin Creamer http://johnmilton.org/?p=167 Catherine Martin writes:

A new and potentially groundbreaking study questioning Milton’s identity as a religious Puritan is now available from Ashgate Press (Aldershot, 2010). In Milton among the Puritans: The Case for Historical Revisionism, Catherine Gimelli Martin shows that the demise of the “Puritan Revolution” thesis about the English civil wars should cause all serious scholars to reconsider the grounds for labeling the poet a Puritan, a tradition of relatively late duration and highly dubious factuality. In addition to making this case, the book offers chapters on each of Milton’s major poems, including one on Comus, from a more literary and secular perspective than much other work to date. The book has been reviewed and highly recommended Thomas Corns and John Rogers.

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