Thomas Festa is Professor of English at the State University of New York, New Paltz. He is the author of The End of Learning: Milton and Education (2006) and some two dozen scholarly articles as well as co-editor of the award-winning feminist teaching anthology, Early Modern Women on the Fall (2012), and two previous essay collections dedicated to Milton’s works, Milton, Materialism, and Embodiment (2017) and Scholarly Milton (2019). David Ainsworth is Associate Professor of English and a faculty member in the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. His most recent project, Milton, Music and Literary Interpretation, constructs a methodology for reading Milton’s works through musical concepts, while arguing that Milton himself uses musical metaphors to capture the ineffable characteristics of the divine.

• Thomas Festa “Locating Milton: An Introduction”Part 1: MILTON AT HOME AND ABROAD AT ONCE1. John Rumrich “John Milton’s Night at the Opera”2. Elizabeth Sauer “Studied for Action: Milton’s Bookscape and Communes Loci”3. Jameela Lares “Milton for Mississippi: A New Call for Public Intellectuals—or Some Better Term”Part 2: MILTON’S MATHEMATICAL MODELS1. Matthew Dolloff “Gabriel’s Trumpet: Milton and Seventeenth-Century Conceptualizations of Infinity”2. Christopher Koester “Mathematical Milton: Number Theory and Nesting Infinities in Paradise Lost”3. D. Geoffrey Emmerson “When Milton ‘Comes to Model Heav’n’: Experimenting with Scientific Genre and Diagram in Paradise Lost”Part 3: MILTON’S MULTITUDINOUS RETURNS1. Clay Greene “Giving Laws to Milton’s God: Præexistence (1714) as Revision of Paradise Lost”2. Ian Bickford “Tagore, Star Trek, and Milton’s Intergalactic, Postcolonial Return”3. Miklós Péti “Samson: An Unlikely Hero of Socialism”

‘Together, the essays invite readers (in the spirit of Emerson’s contribution) to think about the perspectives that produce the various models of Milton that populate our teaching and research... the collection’s conceptual framework is a welcome contribution to Milton studies.’ Jason A. Kerr, Seventeenth-Century News

Thomas Festa is Professor of English at the State University of New York, New Paltz. He is the author of The End of Learning: Milton and Education (2006) and some two dozen scholarly articles as well as co-editor of the award-winning feminist teaching anthology, Early Modern Women on the Fall (2012), and two previous essay collections dedicated to Milton’s works, Milton, Materialism, and Embodiment (2017) and Scholarly Milton (2019). David Ainsworth is Associate Professor of English and a faculty member in the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. His most recent project, Milton, Music and Literary Interpretation, constructs a methodology for reading Milton’s works through musical concepts, while arguing that Milton himself uses musical metaphors to capture the ineffable characteristics of the divine.

• Thomas Festa “Locating Milton: An Introduction”Part 1: MILTON AT HOME AND ABROAD AT ONCE1. John Rumrich “John Milton’s Night at the Opera”2. Elizabeth Sauer “Studied for Action: Milton’s Bookscape and Communes Loci”3. Jameela Lares “Milton for Mississippi: A New Call for Public Intellectuals—or Some Better Term”Part 2: MILTON’S MATHEMATICAL MODELS1. Matthew Dolloff “Gabriel’s Trumpet: Milton and Seventeenth-Century Conceptualizations of Infinity”2. Christopher Koester “Mathematical Milton: Number Theory and Nesting Infinities in Paradise Lost”3. D. Geoffrey Emmerson “When Milton ‘Comes to Model Heav’n’: Experimenting with Scientific Genre and Diagram in Paradise Lost”Part 3: MILTON’S MULTITUDINOUS RETURNS1. Clay Greene “Giving Laws to Milton’s God: Præexistence (1714) as Revision of Paradise Lost”2. Ian Bickford “Tagore, Star Trek, and Milton’s Intergalactic, Postcolonial Return”3. Miklós Péti “Samson: An Unlikely Hero of Socialism”

‘Together, the essays invite readers (in the spirit of Emerson’s contribution) to think about the perspectives that produce the various models of Milton that populate our teaching and research... the collection’s conceptual framework is a welcome contribution to Milton studies.’ Jason A. Kerr, Seventeenth-Century News

Thomas Festa is Professor of English at the State University of New York, New Paltz. He is the author of The End of Learning: Milton and Education (2006) and some two dozen scholarly articles as well as co-editor of the award-winning feminist teaching anthology, Early Modern Women on the Fall (2012), and two previous essay collections dedicated to Milton’s works, Milton, Materialism, and Embodiment (2017) and Scholarly Milton (2019). David Ainsworth is Associate Professor of English and a faculty member in the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. His most recent project, Milton, Music and Literary Interpretation, constructs a methodology for reading Milton’s works through musical concepts, while arguing that Milton himself uses musical metaphors to capture the ineffable characteristics of the divine.

• Thomas Festa “Locating Milton: An Introduction”Part 1: MILTON AT HOME AND ABROAD AT ONCE1. John Rumrich “John Milton’s Night at the Opera”2. Elizabeth Sauer “Studied for Action: Milton’s Bookscape and Communes Loci”3. Jameela Lares “Milton for Mississippi: A New Call for Public Intellectuals—or Some Better Term”Part 2: MILTON’S MATHEMATICAL MODELS1. Matthew Dolloff “Gabriel’s Trumpet: Milton and Seventeenth-Century Conceptualizations of Infinity”2. Christopher Koester “Mathematical Milton: Number Theory and Nesting Infinities in Paradise Lost”3. D. Geoffrey Emmerson “When Milton ‘Comes to Model Heav’n’: Experimenting with Scientific Genre and Diagram in Paradise Lost”Part 3: MILTON’S MULTITUDINOUS RETURNS1. Clay Greene “Giving Laws to Milton’s God: Præexistence (1714) as Revision of Paradise Lost”2. Ian Bickford “Tagore, Star Trek, and Milton’s Intergalactic, Postcolonial Return”3. Miklós Péti “Samson: An Unlikely Hero of Socialism”

‘Together, the essays invite readers (in the spirit of Emerson’s contribution) to think about the perspectives that produce the various models of Milton that populate our teaching and research... the collection’s conceptual framework is a welcome contribution to Milton studies.’ Jason A. Kerr, Seventeenth-Century News