Milton and Questions of History

Feisal G. Mohamed is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois.Mary Nyquist is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.

‘This excellent collection illuminates the role of Milton studies in establishing in Canada an intellectual and cultural foundation upon which further achievements of many kinds could be built, and, by looking back, points ahead.’ - Kenneth J. E. Graham (Modern Philology vol 112:01:2014) ‘Feisal Mohamed & Mary Nyquist have assembled a remarkable collection of eighteen essays and an afterword from Canadian Miltonists past and present a juxtaposition that raises vital questions about critical historiography.’- Thomas Fulton (Renaissance Quarterly vol 68:01:2015)

• Introduction, by Feisal G. Mohamed and Mary Nyquisti) ReprintsDouglas Bush, ‘The Modern Reaction to Milton’A.S.P. Woodhouse, from Introduction to Puritanism and Liberty Northrop Frye, ‘Literature as Context: Milton’s Lycidas’Hugh MacCallum, ‘Milton and Figurative Interpretation of the Bible’Balachandra Rajan, ‘Paradise Lost’Ernest Sirluck, ‘Areopagitica and a Forgotten Licensing Controversy’Arthur Barker, ‘ “... And on his Crest Sat Horror”: Eighteenth-Century Interpretations of Milton’s Sublimity and his Satan’ii) ReflectionHugh MacCallum, ‘The Study of Milton at the University of Toronto in the Mid-Twentieth Century’iii) New ArticlesJohn Leonard, ‘Douglas Bush in His Time and Ours’Elizabeth Sauer, ‘Radical Company: Milton, the Nostalgia of (Post-)War Criticism, and the Case of A.S.P. Woodhouse’s Puritanism and Liberty’Nicholas von Maltzahn, ‘Milton and the Deist Prelude to Liberalism’Annabel Patterson, ‘Milton as Political Prophet: The Readie and Easie Way’Peter C. Herman, ‘Northrop Frye, Lycidas and the “Intense Inane” of History’Feisal G. Mohamed, ‘Fielding, Jonson, and the Critique of High Mimesis in Paradise Lost’Elizabeth Hodgson, ‘Milton Takes the Veil’Phillip J. Donnelly, ‘Historical Appearance in Areopagitica’Muhammad Sid-Ahmad, ‘Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy and Milton’s Adam’Balachandra Rajan, ‘Ludlow Re-Visited: Milton and Eco-Justice’Afterword, by Paul StevensContributorsPhillip J. Donnelly Baylor UniversityPeter C. Herman San Diego State UniversityElizabeth Hodgson University of British ColumbiaJohn Leonard University of Western OntarioAnnabel Patterson Yale UniversityElizabeth Sauer Brock UniversityMuhammad Sid-Ahmad University of TorontoPaul Stevens University of TorontoNicholas von Maltzahn University of Ottawa