By bringing together Milton specialists with other innovative early modern scholars, the collection aims to embrace and encourage a methodologically adventurous study of Milton's works, analyzing them both in relation to their own moment and their many ensuing contexts.

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Sharon Achinstein, John Hopkins University, USA Ann Baynes Coiro, Rutgers University, USA Katharine Gillespie, Miami University of Ohio, USA Jonathan Goldberg, Emory University, USA Feisal G. Mohamed, The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA Molly Murray, Columbia University, USA Mary Nyquist, University of Toronto, Canada Diane Purkiss, Oxford University, UK Rachel Trubowitz, University of New Hampshire, USA Christopher Warley, University of Toronto, Canada Reginald A. Wilburn, University of New Hampshire, USA

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Introduction; Erin Murphy and Catharine Gray PART I: TEMPORALITY AND HISTORICISM 1. 'Shipwreck is everywhere': Lycidas and the Problems of the Secular; Sharon Achinstein 2. 'What dost thou in this world?'; Jonathan Goldberg 3. Milton's Capitalist Son of God? Temporality and Divine Order in De doctrina Christiana ; Feisal G. Mohamed PART II: FORM AND FIGURES 4. Sufficient and Free: The Poetry of Paradise Lost ; Ann Baynes Coiro 5. As Jesus Tends To Divinity in Paradise Regained : Mathematical Limits and the Arian Son; Rachel Trubowitz 6. Uncouth Milton; Christopher Warley PART III: TAKING LIBERTIES: RECONSIDERING MILTONIC FREEDOM 7. The Liberty of the Subject and the 'Pris'ner Samson'; Molly Murray 8. What Do Men Want? Satan the Rake, and Masculine Desire; Diane Purkiss 9. Shades of Representation: Lucy Hutchinson's Ghost and the Politics of the Representative; Katharine Gillespie 10. Equiano, Satanism, and Slavery; Mary Nyquist 11. When Milton was in Vogue: Cross-Dressing MiltonicPresence and William Craft's Slave Narrative; Reginald A. Wilburn