Women (Re)Writing Milton

This volume of essays reconfigures the reception history of Milton and his works by bringing to the fore women reading, writing, and rewriting Milton, bringing together in conversation a range of voices from diverse historical, cultural, religious, and social contexts across the globe and through the centuries. The book encompasses a rich range of different literary genres, artistic media, and academic disciplines and draws on the research of established Milton scholars and new Miltonists. Like the female authors and artists whom they explore, the contributors take up a variety of standpoints. As well as revisiting the work of established figures, the volume brings new female creative artists, new subjects, and new approaches to the study of Milton.

Foreword Laura L. Knoppers Introduction Mandy Green and Sharihan Al-Akhras Part I Early Responses by English Women Writers: Poetry and Prose Chapter 1 Lucy Hutchinson’s Irrepressible Eve Allan Drew Chapter 2 ‘Soaring in the high region of her fancies’: The Female Poet and the Cosmic Voyage’ Thomas R. Tyrrell Chapter 3 ‘Two Great Sexes Animate the World’: Looking Past ‘Milton’s Bogey’ in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’ Mandy Green Part II Global Perspectives: Biographies, Translations, Novels and the Internet II.1 Nineteenth and twentieth-century responses Chapter 4 The Return of William Wells Brown: A Heroic Black Miltonist in Josephine Brown’s Miltonic Biography of Her Father’ Reginald A. Wilburn Chapter 5 Emilia Pardo Bazán and Milton’s Spanish Afterlife Angelica Duran Chapter 6 I Am Not ‘Masculine’ I Am Weak: Ágnes Nemes Nagy’s Translation of Sonnet 23’ Miklós Péti II.2 Contemporary responses Chapter 7 Milton’s Domestic Life and the Tempering of Female Ambition in Kim Wilkins’ Angel of Ruin Larisa Kocic-Zámbó Chapter 8 From Hell to Paradise: Miltonic Presences in Beatriz Bracher’s Anatomia do Paraíso Renata Meints Adail Chapter 9 Milton and Arab Female Authorship in the Age of Social Media Sharihan Al-Akhras Part III Milton through the Female Gaze III.1 Women Re-reading Milton: Education and Theory Chapter 10 ‘Beyond Milton’s Daughters: Dorothy Dury, Lady Ranelagh, and the Question of Female Education Shannon Miller Chapter 11 ‘Queer Opening’: Eve’s Readers and Writers Stephanie Spoto Chapter 12 ‘Paradise within’: A Post-Jungian Revisiting of the Feminine in Milton’s Paradise Lost’ Roula Maria Dib III.2 Milton Visualised: Digital Media, Art, and Performance Chapter 13 Gendered Reflections on an All-Day Reading of Paradise Lost Jameela Lares and Kayla M. Schreiber Chapter 14 Other Eyes: Women Artists Rewriting Paradise Lost Wendy Furman-Adams Chapter 15 Women Directing Milton: Feminist Stagings of Miltonic Seduction Farah Karim-Cooper

Mandy Green is Associate Professor of English at Durham University where she teaches courses on Milton, Shakespeare, and Renaissance Literature. Her work on classical presences in English literature has appeared in a number of journals and edited volumes; she has also published a monograph on Milton’s Ovidian Eve (2nd edn, 2016). Sharihan Al-Akhras is a journalist who has worked in a number of media outlets and social networking services in London, including but not limited to: BBC Arabic, Al Jazeera English, and Twitter. Her PhDthesis examined the presence of Judeo-Arabic mythology in Paradise Lost. Her interests include Early Modern Literature, Middle-Eastern mythology, the demonic, Arab female authorship, East–West relations, and (social) media.