The 2005 Conference on John Milton
October 20-22, 2005
Sponsored by the English Department
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
“Ah gentle pair, yee little think how nigh / Your change approaches. . .” (Paradise Lost 4.366- 7)
Directors of the 2005 Conference on John Milton:
Charles W. Durham, Middle Tennessee State University (Emeritus)
Kristin A. Pruitt, Christian Brothers University (Emerita)
Kevin J. Donovan, Middle Tennessee State University
Conference Advisors
John T. Shawcross, University of Kentucky (Emeritus)
Donald P. McDonough, Central Connecticut State University
All conference activities will be held at the Doubletree Hotel-Murfreesboro.
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Thursday, October 20
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Reception
Friday, October 21
9:00-9:15 a.m.
Official Welcome
9:15-10:00 a.m.
Featured Address
Barbara Lewalski (Harvard)
“Milton’s Paradises”
10:15-11:30 a.m.
Milton and the Arts
Ann Baynes Coiro (Rutgers)
"Milton's Crisis of Song: 'To God our strength sing loud,
and clear'"
William A. Coulter (Randolph-Macon Woman’s)
“’To testifie his hidd’n residence’;
Some Speculations on the Role of Modern Music in Shaping
‘L’Allegro’ and ‘Il
Penseroso’”
Angelica Duran (Purdue)
“Milton among Hispanics: Giner de los Rios’
19th-Century Spanish Play
Milton”
Milton in the Classroom
Stephen B. Dobranski (Georgia State)
“’On Shakespeare’ in the Classroom: Using
Bibliography to Teach Milton”
Gardner Campbell (Mary Washington)
“Biography, Creation, and Authority in
The Reason of Church Government”
Wendy Furman-Adams (Whittier)
“’That Glorious Form’: Teaching the
Nativity Ode and
Samson Agonistes through Visual Images”
Milton and Education
David Ainsworth (Wisconsin)
“Tragic History and Faithful Reading: Reading by
the Spirit in Book XI of
Paradise Lost”
Jeffrey Gore (Illinois-Chicago)
“Humanism and Obedience in
Of Education”
John Mulryan (St. Bonaventure)
“Dante’s Virgil and Milton’s Michael as
Guides to the Fallen”
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Paradise Lost I
Jacky W. Dumas (Texas Tech)
“The Allure of the Ciceronian Satan’s
Ethos-Based Rhetoric in
Paradise Lost”
Danielle A. St. Hilaire (Cornell)
“Satan’s Self-Creation and the Art of
Fallenness in
Paradise Lost”
Alison Chapman (Alabama Birmingham)
“Milton’s Captive Audience: Teaching Paradise
Lost in the Maximum Security Prison”
Biographical Studies I
Philip Major (London)
“Political Influence in Milton’s
Lycidas”
Edward Jones (Oklahoma State)
“The Wills of Edward Goodall and Thomas Young and
the Life of John Milton”
David Boocker (Western Illinois)
“Milton’s ‘Family Values’: Poems by
Richard Howard”
Shorter Poems I
Timothy J. Burbery (Marshall)
“’Less than half we find expressed’:
Recovering ‘Arcades’ as a Critical Milton
Influence”
Margaret Justice Dean (Eastern Kentucky)
“Reflecting the Son in ‘The Passion’ and
Paradise Lost XII”
Bryan Adams Hampton (Tennessee Chattanooga)
“All ‘Passion’ Spent: Hermeneutics and
Theology in Milton’s ‘unfinish’t’
Poem”
Comus
Jessica Tvordi (Southern Utah)
“The Deviance of a Nation: The Sodomite as
Treasonous Type in Milton’s
Comus”
Matthew Stallard (Ohio)
“’Thou Canst Not Touch the Freedom of My
Mind’: Rhetorical Seduction in
Wieland and
Comus”
Christina A Schmitz (Alabama Birmingham)
“’With Groves of myrrhe, and cinnamon’:
The Theme of Restoration in Milton’s
Comus”
1:00-2:30 p.m. Lunch
2:30-4:15 p.m.
Milton: Place and Space
Maura Brady (LeMoyne)
“Place and Space in
Paradise Lost”
Gregory Chaplin (Bridgewater State)
“Milton and the New Heresy”
Lara Dodds (Mississippi State)
“Milton the Space Man”
Mimi Fenton (Western Carolina)
“My Self am Paradise: Hope, Land, and Redemption
in
Paradise Regain’d”
Paradise Lost II
Lynn Greenberg (Hunter)
“Adam’s ‘Fair Consort’: Queenship
in
Paradise Lost”
Amy D. Stackhouse (Iona)
“’Contrive to save appearances’:
Eve’s Departure and Adam’s Countenance”
Elisabeth Liebert (Otago)
“’[T]he very portract of his
properties’:
Ars Aulica and the Court of Heaven”
John T. Shawcross (Kentucky)
“Milton’s Loaded Language: ‘Convey’
and Other Examples”
Milton and the Classics
Stella P. Revard (Southern Illinois)
“The Dialogue with Ovid: Milton’s Latin and
English Poems”
David J. Bradshaw (Warren Wilson)
“
Sparagmos and Possible Virgilian Inflence on A-Cosmic
Opposition in
Paradise Lost”
Maggie Kilgour (McGill)
“Ovid’s Diet:
Comus and the
Fasti”
Milton and New World Issues
Kemmer Anderson (McCallie)
“’If Not Equal All’: The Problem of
Equality in Milton and Jefferson”
Joshua W. Hutchinson (St. Louis)
“’O Might I Here in Solitude Live
Savage’: Milton and the New World”
Hugh Wilson (Grambling)
“John Milton and the Struggle over
Slavery”
4:30-5:45 p.m.
Eco-Milton
Rebecca Buckham (Messiah)
“Eden Voiced: Milton’s Dialogic Community of
Creation and an Environmental Ethic of Partnership”
Joan Blythe (Kentucky)
“Chateaubriand’s Green Reading of Milton: The
Genius of Place And the Beauties of Christianity”
Ken Hiltner (Harvard)
“What Else is Pastoral?”
Samson Agonistes I
Clark Hutton (Volunteer State)
“An Augustinian Reading of Milton’s
Samson Agonistes”
Alice Mathews (North Texas)
“
Samson Agonistes: Ecclesiastes as Drama”
Lewis Walker (North Carolina Wilmington)
“
Samson Agonistes and
Richard III”
Paradise Lost III
Pitt Harding (Jacksonville State)
“Plotting Against Satan: Recuperative Narrative
Strategy in
Paradise Lost”
Glenn Sucich (Northwestern)
“Hath Hell Any Fury?: The Question of Satan’s
Salvation”
Margaret Olofson Thickstun (Hamilton)
“Peer Pressure and the Rebel Angels”
Prose I
Sandy Bugeja (Queen’s)
“’A Nation of Prophets, Sages, and
Worthies’: John Milton’s
Areopagitica and the Discursive Practices of
Nation-building”
Deneen Senasi (Tennessee)
“’Uniforme Consent’: Conversion,
Consensus, and the Collective Individual in Milton’s
Of Reformation”
Hugh Jenkins (Union)
“Milton and the People: Yes”
6:30-7:30 p.m. Cash Bar
7:30 p.m. Dinner (casual attire)
Saturday, October 22
9:00-10:15 a.m.
Paradise Lost IV
Sarah Morrison (Morehead State)
“The Accommodating Serpent and the Dynamics of
God’s Grace in
Paradise Lost”
John Baarsch (Wisconsin)
“Leviathan and Monstrous Analogy in
Paradise Lost”
Patrick Casey (Western Ontario)
“Free Falling: The Moral and Physical Gravity of
the Fall”
Paradise Regained
Andrea Walkden (Yale)
“Me his’: Authoring the Early Life of the Son
in
Paradise Regained”
Samuel Smith (Messiah)
“’That . . . which might have been well
compriz’d in one’: Samuel Wesley’s 1693 Reading of
Milton’s
Paradise Regained”
Bill Goldstein (CUNY)
“’This Having Heard’: Sequel and Prequel
in Milton’s 1671 Poetic Volume”
Shorter Poems II
Louis Schwartz (Richmond)
“Too Much Conceiving: On the Reproductive Imagery
of Milton’s ‘On Shakespeare’”
David Urban (Calvin)
“Talents and Laborers: Parabolic Tension in
Milton’s ‘Sonnet 19’”
Leland Ryken (Wheaton)
“Milton’s Late Espous?d Saint in Her Puritan
Context”
Prose II
Rob Browning (Montana)
“
Areopagitica on Reading the (Bad) Book of
Spectacle”
Coby Dowdell (Toronto)
“Milton’s ‘Warfare of Peace’:
Puritan Self-Examination and the Politics of Exegesis in
Second Defence”
Carol Barton (Independent Scholar)
“’Man of Blood, Man of Sorrows’: Charles
I from the English Pulpit”
10:30-11:45 a.m.
Prose III
Justin Kolb (Wisconsin)
“’Brotherly Dissimilitudes’: The Radical
Sects and Milton’s Vitalist Order”
Phillip J. Donnelly (Baylor)
“Ontology and Protestant Toleration: Rethinking
Milton’s Monism in
A Treatise of Civil Power”
Sarah Copeland (Toronto)
“Speaking in Print to a Reading Audience: Print,
Oratorical Models, the Writing-Private-Man, and the Early Modern
Reading Nation in Milton’s
Areopagitica”
Samson Agonistes II
Richard DuRocher (St. Olaf)
“Samson’s ‘Rousing Motions’: What
They Are, How They Work, and Why They Matter”
Ryan Netzley (Southern Illinois)
“’Mercy of Heav’n what hideous noise was
that!’: Reading Events in
Samson Agonistes”
Susan Kirby-Smith (North Carolina Greensboro)
“
Samson Agonistes and the Recovery of Free
Will”
Biographical Studies II
Peter Medine (Arizona)
“’Matters both Doubtful and Important’:
A Reconsideration of the Biographical and Occasional Contexts of
the Divorce Tracts”
Catherine Gimelli Martin (Memphis)
“Milton in Italy: A Reconsideration of Why It
Matters”
Derek N. C. Wood (St. Francis Xavier)
“Milton, the Restoration, and the Dream of Violent
Revolution”
Paradise Lost V
Charles Keim (Nazarene)
“’A Seraph Wing’d’: The Office of
High Priest in
Paradise Lost”
Boyd M. Berry (Virginia Commonwealth)
“Vegetable Love in Eden”
Gen Ohinata (Kwansei Gakuin)
“Restoration and Ambiguity in
Paradise Lost”
12-12:45 p.m.
Featured Address
Paul Stevens (Toronto)
“How Milton’s Nationalism Works”
12:45 p.m.
Official Closing
Kevin J. Donovan (Middle Tennessee), Charles W. Durham (Middle Tennessee), and Kristin Pruitt (Christian Brothers)
The cover illustration
"The Mysterious Garden” by Fred Kato Mutebi, is reproduced with the artist’s permission. A Ugandan, Fred was Fulbright Artist-in-Residence at Christian Brothers University, 2003-04. Fred wrote about this commissioned piece: "There is mystery in the nature of the Mythology of the Garden of Eden, pertaining to the color of Adam and Eve, the type of fruit that was forbidden, Satan in the form of a snake, the nakedness of Adam and Eve, and so forth. This is what prompted me to express myself this way about the subject. I have heard people blame Adam for having succumbed to the pleas of Eve and eaten the forbidden fruit. Others blame Eve for succumbing to Satan's temptation. As for me, I apportion no blame. I think there was beauty, love, excitement, power, conspiracy, refusal, and acceptance. I also imagined it happened yesterday in Uganda."
Acknowledgments
The directors gratefully acknowledge the support they have received from:
MTSU Department of English
The Virginia Peck Foundation Trust Fund
MTSU Publications and Graphics
MTSU Print Shop
Maria Clayton
Ayne Cantrell
Larry Gentry
Katherine Haynes
Ken Robinson, MTSU Photographic Services
MacGregor's Wines and Liquors
Pam Little and the Murfreesboro Doubletree Hotel Staff
The registration fee of $110 includes the catered opening reception on Thursday, October, 20; coffee and pastry on Friday and Saturday, October 21-22; and dinner on Friday, October 21. The registration fee may be paid by check, money order, or bank draft. We cannot accept payment by credit card. Please make checks payable to "The Conference on John Milton" and mail with the registration form to Kevin Donovan, Department of English, P.O. Box 401, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37132. We are providing a printable copy of the Registration Form.
Travel: Murfreesboro is located 35 miles south of Nashville International Airport. Anytime Transport Shuttle Service will provide transportation between the airport and the conference site (the Doubletree Hotel in Murfreesboro) for the special conference rate of $40 (round-trip). To arrange airport shuttle service, use this hotlink, or send an e-mail message to < dana@anytimetransportshuttleservice.com> or call toll-free at 1-877-479-5483; be sure to ask for the conference rate. Car rental service is also available at the airport.
Lodging: All conference activities will be held at the Doubletree Hotel; the rate there is $75 (plus tax) per room. For reservations, use the hotlink at the conference website (www.mtsu/edu~english2/milton.htm), or call 615-895-5555 . The Doubletree will hold the rooms until September 23rd, and since this is Homecoming weekend at MTSU, we strongly encourage you to make reservations as soon as possible. Other area motels are listed below.
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Saturday Evening Dinner at Cortner Mill
Once again we are organizing a trip to Cortner Mill, a picturesque country restaurant, for conference participants who are staying over Saturday night. The cost of dinner is $30, round-trip transportation on the charter coach $12. Registrants who wish to join us can pay in advance with their conference registration.
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