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Milton in the Long Restoration

Date
Sat April 26th 2014, 9:00am - 7:00pm
Location
èצӰÏñ Humanities Center, 424 Santa Teresa Street

This two-day conference will bring together literary critics, historians, and musicologists to reconsider the coherence of the historical period from the execution of Charles I in 1649 to the Jacobite defeat in 1746, emphasizing the centrality of Milton throughout.

Milton in the Long Restoration will test the power of three propositions: (1) that the years from 1649 to 1746 form a distinct and coherent period that deserves to be defined as a Long Restoration; (2) that we cannot rightly interpret Milton’s late prose and poetry in isolation from authors–such as Denham, Davenant, and Dryden–who are more often yoked into historical narratives that exclude Milton; and (3) that although the Romantics may be true heirs of Milton, they are not his first true heirs: we ignore the record of Milton’s early reception and appropriation at our peril, for these early readers of Milton have left a remarkably rich record of imaginative response, puzzlement, and contestation.

 

Please contact the organizers to register and request access to pre-circulated papers.

The conference will feature a public performance of Milton’s Comus (as performed at the Theatres Royal in Drury Lane and Covent-Garden)—at 12:30 pm on Saturday, April 26, in the Black Community Services Center at 418 Santa Teresa Street (next door to the Humanities Center).

 

Panel topics include:

The Material World

Household, Congregation, Nation

Milton and the Emergence of Critical Theory

Influence and Appropriation

Milton and the Political Future

Epic and Mock Epic

Epic, Mock Epic, and the Novel

 

Presenters include:

Greg Chaplin, Bridgewater State University

Ann Baynes Coiro, Rutgers University

Martin Dzelzainis, University of Leicester

Sophie Gee, Princeton University

Denise Gigante, èצӰÏñ

Blaine Greteman, University of Iowa

David Harper, U. S. Military Academy, West Point

Blair Hoxby, èצӰÏñ

Laura Knoppers, Pennsylvania State University

John Leonard, University of Western Ontario

Jayne Lewis, UC Irvine

Michael McKeon, Rutgers University

Catherine Gimelli Martin, Unversity of Memphis

Christopher R. Miller, CUNY Staten Island

Mary Nyquist, University of Toronto

Jason Peacey, University College London

Joanna Picciotto, UC Berkeley

Steven Pincus, Yale University

Nigel Smith, Princeton University

Ruth Smith, Cambridge University

Dustin Stewart, Agnes Scott College

N. K. Sugimura, Georgetown University

Nicholas von Maltzahn, University of Ottawa

Anthony Welch, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Abigail Zitin, Rutgers University

Steven Zwicker, Washington University, St. Louis

Anne-Julia Zwierlein, University of Regensburg

 

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Sponsors: Generously supported by the Gene J. and Betye Monell Burton Fund in the èצӰÏñ Arts Institute, the èצӰÏñ Humanities Center, the Dean of Humanities, the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, departments of English and History, the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, the British Studies Lecture Series, and the Seminar on Enlightenment and Revolution