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). KEVIN J. DONOVAN, Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, co-directed with Charles W. Durham and Kristin A. Pruitt the biennial Conference on John Milton from 1991 to 2015. With Thomas Festa he co-edited Milton, Materialism, and Embodiment (Duquesne UP, 2017). He also wrote the Survey of Interpretive Criticism for the New Variorum Shakespeare King Lear, edited by Richard Knowles (forthcoming 2019, MLA) and is associate editor of the volume.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Scholarly MiltonPart 1: MILTON AND THE ETHICAL ENDS OF LEARNING1. Sharon Achinstein High Enterprise: Milton and the Genres of Scholarship in the Divorce Tracts2. Sam Hushagen, Typology and Milton’s Masterplot3. James Ross Macdonald The Devil as Teacher in Paradise Lost4. J. Antonio Templanza “The First and Wisest of Them All”: Paradise Regained and the Beginning of Thinking5. Gardner Campbell Learning, Love, and the Freedom of the Double BindPart 2: MILTON AND THE TRIVIUM1. Emma Annette Wilson Re-Visiting Milton’s (Logical) God: Empson 20152. Russell Hugh McConnell God’s Grammar: Milton’s Parsing of the Divine3. Joshua R. Held Raphael’s Peroratorio in Paradise Lost: Balancing Rhetorical Passion in Virgil and PaulPart 3: MILTON AND SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY1. Emily E. Stelzer Euphrasy, Rue, Polysemy, and Repairing the Ruins2. Nicholas Allred Paradise Finding Aids3. Edward Jones Political Diplomacy, Personal Conviction, and the Fraught Nature of Milton’s Letters of State

"This collection has the potential to be a repository of and catalyst for continued reflection on the importance of scholarship and will certainly generate new scholarly work on Milton and beyond."David A. Harper, Milton Quarterly (55.3-4)

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). KEVIN J. DONOVAN, Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, co-directed with Charles W. Durham and Kristin A. Pruitt the biennial Conference on John Milton from 1991 to 2015. With Thomas Festa he co-edited Milton, Materialism, and Embodiment (Duquesne UP, 2017). He also wrote the Survey of Interpretive Criticism for the New Variorum Shakespeare King Lear, edited by Richard Knowles (forthcoming 2019, MLA) and is associate editor of the volume.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Scholarly MiltonPart 1: MILTON AND THE ETHICAL ENDS OF LEARNING1. Sharon Achinstein High Enterprise: Milton and the Genres of Scholarship in the Divorce Tracts2. Sam Hushagen, Typology and Milton’s Masterplot3. James Ross Macdonald The Devil as Teacher in Paradise Lost4. J. Antonio Templanza “The First and Wisest of Them All”: Paradise Regained and the Beginning of Thinking5. Gardner Campbell Learning, Love, and the Freedom of the Double BindPart 2: MILTON AND THE TRIVIUM1. Emma Annette Wilson Re-Visiting Milton’s (Logical) God: Empson 20152. Russell Hugh McConnell God’s Grammar: Milton’s Parsing of the Divine3. Joshua R. Held Raphael’s Peroratorio in Paradise Lost: Balancing Rhetorical Passion in Virgil and PaulPart 3: MILTON AND SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY1. Emily E. Stelzer Euphrasy, Rue, Polysemy, and Repairing the Ruins2. Nicholas Allred Paradise Finding Aids3. Edward Jones Political Diplomacy, Personal Conviction, and the Fraught Nature of Milton’s Letters of State

"This collection has the potential to be a repository of and catalyst for continued reflection on the importance of scholarship and will certainly generate new scholarly work on Milton and beyond."David A. Harper, Milton Quarterly (55.3-4)

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). KEVIN J. DONOVAN, Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, co-directed with Charles W. Durham and Kristin A. Pruitt the biennial Conference on John Milton from 1991 to 2015. With Thomas Festa he co-edited Milton, Materialism, and Embodiment (Duquesne UP, 2017). He also wrote the Survey of Interpretive Criticism for the New Variorum Shakespeare King Lear, edited by Richard Knowles (forthcoming 2019, MLA) and is associate editor of the volume.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Scholarly MiltonPart 1: MILTON AND THE ETHICAL ENDS OF LEARNING1. Sharon Achinstein High Enterprise: Milton and the Genres of Scholarship in the Divorce Tracts2. Sam Hushagen, Typology and Milton’s Masterplot3. James Ross Macdonald The Devil as Teacher in Paradise Lost4. J. Antonio Templanza “The First and Wisest of Them All”: Paradise Regained and the Beginning of Thinking5. Gardner Campbell Learning, Love, and the Freedom of the Double BindPart 2: MILTON AND THE TRIVIUM1. Emma Annette Wilson Re-Visiting Milton’s (Logical) God: Empson 20152. Russell Hugh McConnell God’s Grammar: Milton’s Parsing of the Divine3. Joshua R. Held Raphael’s Peroratorio in Paradise Lost: Balancing Rhetorical Passion in Virgil and PaulPart 3: MILTON AND SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY1. Emily E. Stelzer Euphrasy, Rue, Polysemy, and Repairing the Ruins2. Nicholas Allred Paradise Finding Aids3. Edward Jones Political Diplomacy, Personal Conviction, and the Fraught Nature of Milton’s Letters of State

"This collection has the potential to be a repository of and catalyst for continued reflection on the importance of scholarship and will certainly generate new scholarly work on Milton and beyond."David A. Harper, Milton Quarterly (55.3-4)