In the Anteroom of Divinity
February 21, 2009
Feisal G. Mohamed has published a new book (December 2008), In the Anteroom of Divinity: The Reformation of the Angels from Colet to Milton.
In the Anteroom of Divinity focuses on the persistence of Pseudo-Dionysian angelology in England’s early modern period. Beginning with a discussion of John Colet’s commentary on Dionysisus’s twin hierarchies, Feisal G. Mohamed explores the significance of the Dionysian tradition to the conformism debate of the 1590s through works by Richard Hooker and Edmund Spenser. He then turns to John Donne and John Milton to shed light on their constructions of godly poetics, politics and devotion, and provides the most extensive study of Milton’s angelology in more than fifty years.
With new philosophical, theological, and literary insights, this work offers a contribution to intellectual history and the history of religion in critical moments of the English Reformation.
Milton in America
December 8, 2008
Announcing a special issue of University of Toronto Quarterly
Milton in America, edited by Paul Stevens and Patricia Simmons, offers a series of fresh new perspectives on the presence of Milton in American literature and culture. It seeks to investigate and complicate the received wisdom implicit in the old claim that ‘Milton is more emphatically American than any author who has lived in the United States.’ This important collection of seven new essays by leading international scholars from Britain, Canada, and the United States offers insight into both the ways Milton was re-shaped by his reception into American culture and, conversely, the ways the great poet’s writings often stimulated opposition to conventional American norms.
Articles:
Milton in America: Introduction
Paul Stevens
Cold War Milton
Sharon Achinstein
Milton among the Pragmatists
David Hawkes
Un-American Milton
Christopher Kendrick
Milton and the Pursuit of Happiness
Catherine Gimelli Martin
Liberty Before and After Liberalism: Milton’s Shifting Politics and the Current Crisis in Liberal Theory
Feisal G. Mohamed
Contemporary Ancestors of de Bry, Hobbes, and Milton
Mary Nyquist
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