Penn State University Press Milton Studies: Volume 59

Published annually as an important forum for Milton scholarship and criticism, Milton Studies focuses on various aspects of John Milton's life and writing, including biography; literary history; Milton's work in its literary, intellectual, political, or cultural contexts; Milton's influence on or relationship to other writers; and the history of critical response to his work. Volume 59 includes: Peculiar and Personal: Milton's De Doctrina Christiana - John K. Hale The Ecology of Chaos in Paradise Lost - Sarah Smith Mortal Change: Life after Death in Paradise Lost - Mandy Green Milton's Sensuous Poetics: On the Material Texts of Paradise Lost - Thomas Festa Milton's Earthbound Bodies: Genesis, Physics, Aesthetics - Caryn O'Connell Writing Epic in the Aftermath of Civil War: Paradise Lost, the Aeneid, and the Politics of Contemporary History - David Loewenstein Heroic Restorations: Dryden and Milton - Thomas H. Luxon Milton, Deliberative Liberty, and the Law of Spousal Privileges - Todd Butler About the Author Laura L. Knoppers is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Widely published on seventeenth-century literature, politics, religion, and visual culture, she is most recently the author of Politicizing Domesticity from Henrietta Maria to Milton’s Eve and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution. Her Oxford scholarly edition of Milton’s Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes won the 2008 John Shawcross Award from the Milton Society of America. Knoppers is past chair of the Northeast Milton Seminar and past president of the Milton Society of America.