Milton in France

Contents: Hugh Wilson: Milton and Wordsworth: Reflections on "L'Allegro", "Il Penseroso", and "Tintern Abbey" - Jean Pironon: The Five Senses as Origin of Milton's Poetic Idiom in the University Exercises and the Minor Poems (1626-1637) - Trevor Laurence Jockims: Pastoral Lost and Regained in "Lycidas" - David V. Urban: Talents and Laborers: Parabolic Tension in Milton's Sonnet 19 - Matthew Jordan: The Bourgeois Utopianism of Milton's Anti-Prelatical Tracts - James Rovira: Milton's Ontology of Books and Areopagitica - Antti Tahvanainen: The Role of Rhetoric in the Political Thought of John Milton - Kemmer Anderson: Those Tenured Tyrants: How Milton's Tenure of Kings and Magistrates Influenced Jefferson's Declaration of Independence - Danièle Frison : Droits et Libertés dans The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates de John Milton - Yuko Kanakubo Noro: On Milton's Proposal for a "Communitas Libera" Reconsidered - from Defensio Prima , through The Readie and Easie Way , to Paradise Lost - Georgi Vasilev : Philosophie et figures dualistes dans les pamphlets de John Milton - Matt Dolloff: Urania, Antidote to Tyranny - T. Ross Leasure: Spenser's Diabolical Orator and Milton's "Man of Hell" - Martin Dawes: Adam's Co-creation of Eve: Taking Liberties with Milton's Ironic God - Virginie Ortega-Tillier : Qualités plastiques de l'évocation poétique & caractéristiques des illustrations du Paradis perdu de Milton - Luis Fernando Ferreira Sá: Notes on a Postcolonial Fall in Milton's Paradise - Charlotte Clutterbuck: The Sinner's View of God in the Invocations and Book III of Paradise Lost - Margaret Justice Dean: Martyrdom Reconsidered: Adam's Profit from Abdiel's Example - Antonella Piazza: Milton and Galileo: The Astronomical Diet of Paradise Lost - Daniele Borgogni: "Real or Allegoric I Discern Not": Paradise Regained and the Problem of Representation in Early Modern England - Suvi Mäkelä: "[E]xiled from light": Beauty, the Senses and Freedom in Samson Agonistes - Sherry Lutz

The Editor: Christophe Tournu is Associate Professor of English and Research Advisor at the School of Law in Grenoble, France. He organized the 8th International Milton Symposium in Grenoble in 2005. He co-founded the Societé d'Etudes Miltoniennes and is the author of Théologie et politique dans l'oeuvre en prose de John Milton (2000) and of Milton, Mirabeau : rencontre révolutionnaire (2002). He made the first translation into French of The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, 2nd ed., 1644 (2005). His latest book Un penseur républicain à l'époque de la première revolution anglaise : John Milton, Areopagitica (1644), The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649) has just been published (2008).