Milton's Moving Bodies

Marissa Greenberg is an associate professor of English at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Metropolitan Tragedy: Genre, Justice, and the City in Early Modern England. Rachel Trubowitz is a professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature.

“Across a series of erudite and compelling essays, Milton’s Moving Bodies exposes how integral the variations of ‘movement’ and ‘rest’ are to the comprehension, reception, and translation of Milton’s work.”—Russ Leo, Princeton University“This boundary-defying volume is both highly persuasive and well presented, engaging but also ambitiously roaming far afield from prevalent investigations of Milton’s materialist philosophy, animistic materialism, and embodiment. Its essays effectively intersect and move current conversations about these issues in new directions.”—Elizabeth Sauer, Brock University

• A Note on TextsAbbreviationsIllustrationsContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionMilton’s Moving BodiesMarissa Greenberg and Rachel Trubowitz  Chapter 1Be Still: Milton’s Poetry of MotionJohn Rumrich  Chapter 2That “Strange / Desire of Wandring”:  Physical and Ideological Movement in Paradise LostSydney Bartlett  Chapter 3Extraterrestrial Eden: The Migration of Paradise in the Early Modern European ImaginationErin Webster  Chapter 4Milton’s Moving Bodies at the Border: Kinopolitics in Paradise Lost and Samson AgonistesRachel Trubowitz  Chapter 5Moving Jewish Bodies, Moving Jewish Souls: Milton’s Paradise Regain’d, the Jewish (Readmission) Question, and John TolandAchsah Guibbory  Chapter 6Decomposing Milton: Romantic Reading and Demotic DispersalJennifer Wallace  Chapter 7Shapes of Things to Come: Milton, Evolution, and the Afterlife of Species in Tennyson’s In Memoriam, A. H. H.Ryan Hackenbracht  Chapter 8Anon They Move: Two Hispanoamerican Translations of Paradise Lost, Book 3Mario Murgia  Chapter 9Presencing the Author: Illustrations of Milton in Hispanoamerican PublicationsAngelica Duran  Chapter 10Moved and Surprised by White Sin: Milton’s Satanic Influence in Part 1 of Pauline E. Hopkins’s Hagar’s DaughterReginald A. Wilburn  Chapter 11Snaking the Path: Disability, Pedagogy, JusticeMarissa Greenberg  AfterwordMoving in and with MiltonStephen M. Fallon