To Repair the Ruins: Reading Milton

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To Repair the Ruins S Reading Milton edited by Mary C. Fenton and Louis Schwartz DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY PRESS Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Copyright © 2012 Duquesne University Press All rights reserved Published in the United States of America by duquesne university Press 600 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15282 No part of this book may be used or reproduced, in any manner or form whatsoever, without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of short quotations in critical articles or reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data To repair the ruins : reading Milton / edited by Mary C. Fenton and Louis Schwartz. p. cm.—(Medieval & Renaissance literary studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary: “Twelve essays by esteemed Milton scholars offer fresh perspectives on the significance of close reading for Milton criticism, examining how close reading may function as an act of recovery, an attempt to close the gap between past and present, or as an act of repair that uses the past to reenvision a ruined present”—Provided by publisher. ISBN 978-0-8207-0454-8 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Milton, John, 1608–1674—Criticism and interpretation. I. Fenton, Mary C., 1959– II. Schwartz, Louis. III. Title: Reading Milton PR3588.T7 2012 821’.4—dc23 2012022080 Credits for figures in chapter 11, Wendy Furman-Adams, “The Fate of Place in Paradise Lost: Three Artists Reading Milton”: Figure 1, artwork by Francis Hayman. Reprinted with permission of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Figures 2–11, artwork by John Martin. Photos courtesy of the Special Collections Library, University of Southern California. Figures 12–22, artwork by Mary Elizabeth Groom. Reproduced by permission of the Golden Cockerel Press and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Figures 23–29, artwork by Carla Petrina. Reproduced by permission of MBI, Inc., and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. First ebook edition, 2012 ISBN 978-0-8207-0579-8 (ebook) In Memoriam John T. Shawcross 1924–2011 ...