Making Milton

Emma Depledge is Assistant Professor of English Literature, 1500-1790 at the Université de Neuchâtel. She is the author of Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence: Print, Politics and Alteration, 1642-1700 (CUP, 2018) and co-editor of Canonising Shakespeare: Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640-1740 (CUP, 2017). She writes the annual review of texts and editions for Shakespeare Survey and is an associate editor for English Studies. John S. Garrison is Professor of English at Grinnell College, where he teaches courses on early modern literature and culture. His recent books include Shakespeare at Peace (with Kyle Pivetti, Routledge, 2018) and Shakespeare and the Afterlife (Oxford University Press, 2019).Marissa Nicosia is Assistant Professor of Renaissance Literature at The Pennsylvania State University--Abington College. She is co-editor of Renaissance Futures, a special volume of Explorations in Renaissance Culture (2019), and she has published articles on early modern literature in journals such as Modern Philology, Milton Studies, and The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. She is a member of the executive council of the Milton Society of America.

• 1: Emma Depledge, John S. Garrison, and Marissa Nicosia: What Made Milton?PART ONE: MILTON AND THE BOOK TRADE2: Stephen B. Dobranski: Milton and Transcendent Authorship3: Blaine Greteman: Making Connections with Milton's Epitaphium Damonis4: Emma Depledge: Repackaging Milton for the Late Seventeenth-Century Book Trade: Jacob Tonson, Paradise Lost, and John Dryden's The State of Innocence5: Thomas N. Corns: Joseph Addison and the Domestication of Paradise LostPART TWO: MILTON'S CONSTRUCTION OF AN AUTHORIAL IDENTITY6: Noam Reisner: Young Milton's Pauline Temper7: David Loewenstein: Milton's Ludlow Maske and Remaking English Nationhood8: Rachel Willie: Inscribing Textuality: Milton, Davenant, Authorship, and the Performance of Print9: John K. Hale: 'Londini sum natus': The Latin Voice of Milton's Life-Account in Defensio Secunda10: Antoinina Bevan Zlatar: Milton among the Iconoclasts11: Kyle Pivetti: 'Do I Amuse You?: Milton's Muse and the Dangers of Erotic Inspiration'PART THREE: MILTON'S AFTERLIVES12: Lara Dodds: Making Milton's Bogey: Or, Anne Finch Reads John Milton13: Angelica Duran: Mexican Miltons14: Neil Forsyth: Milton's Erotic Dramas15: Nigel Smith: Milton and Radicalism16: Elizabeth Sauer: Afterword: Making Milton MatterWorks Cited

The collection is worth reading for anyone interested in some of the ways in which an old preoccupation in Milton Studies is being reframed and reexamined...This volume is a useful introduction to the conversation as it now stands and to some of the directions it is likely to take in the near future.