Queer Milton

Description

Queer Milton is the first book-length study dedicated to anti-heteronormative approaches to the poetry and prose of John Milton. Organized into sections on “Eroticism and Form” and “Temporality and Affect,” essays in this volume read Milton’s works through radical queer interpretive frameworks that have elsewhere animated and enriched Renaissance Studies. Leveraging insights from recent queer work and related fields, contributions demonstrate diverse possible futures for Queer Milton Studies. At the same time, Queer Milton bears witness to the capacity for queer to arbitrate debates that have shaped, and indeed continue to shape, developments in the field of Milton Studies. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxiii Rude Milton: Gender, Sexuality, and the Missing Middle of Milton Studies (Erin Murphy)....Pages 1-41 Front Matter ....Pages 43-43 Queering as Critical Practice in Reading Paradise Lost (Thomas H. Luxon)....Pages 45-63 Allegories of Breeding: Milton’s Queer Disfigurations (Corey McEleney)....Pages 65-91 “Overflowing Cups for Amorous Jove”: Abundance and Attraction in Milton’s Elegies (John S. Garrison)....Pages 93-115 Eros and Anteros: Queer Mutuality in The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (David L. Orvis)....Pages 117-137 “Fellowships of Joy”: Angelic Union in Paradise Lost (Stephen Guy-Bray)....Pages 139-151 Virtual or Immediate Touch: Queer Adaptations of Paradise Lost in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Lara Dodds)....Pages 153-177 Front Matter ....Pages 179-179 “What Hath Night to Do with Sleep?”: Religion and Biopolitics in Milton’s Mask (Melissa E. Sanchez)....Pages 181-208 What Happened Last Night: Shameful Memories and Miltonic Nationhood (Kyle Pivetti)....Pages 209-228 Dagon as Queer Assemblage: Effeminacy and Terror in Samson Agonistes (Drew Daniel)....Pages 229-253 Milton’s Queer Earth: A Geology of Exhausted Life (Steven Swarbrick)....Pages 255-291 Afterword (Will Stockton)....Pages 293-299 Back Matter ....Pages 301-313