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/
Recent Publications from Duquesne University Press
February 22, 2009
Duquesne University Press has recently let us know of the following recent publications of interest:
Milton and Monotheism
by Abraham Stoll
A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton, Volume 3 (Samson Agonistes)
by Stephen B. Dobranski
Introduced by Archie Burnett
Edited by P.J. Klemp
The Development of Milton’s Thought
by John T. Shawcross
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.
