Schedule of Events
Presenters

October 21-23, 1999
Sponsored by the English Department ,
Middle Tennessee State University , Murfreesboro, TN

All conference activities will be held at the Holiday Inn.

Reception

Welcome
Featured Address
Milton and Art
Milton's Imagery
Echoes of Shakespeare
Theological Concerns
The Temptations of Eve
Poetics and Politics I
Ambiguities and Endings

A Masque
Samson Agonistes
Paradise Lost and Gender Issues
Miltonic Influence
Panel Discussion: "Political Milton
Official Closing

Welcome

Featured Address
Stella E. Revard (Southern Illinois)
"Milton and Myth"

Jeffrey Cass (Texas A & M International), "Fuseli's Milton Gallery: Satan's First Address to Eve as a Source for Maria Edgeworth's Belinda"

Wendy Furman-Adams (Whittier), "The Choreography of Passion: Henry Fuseli's Milton Gallery, 1799/1998"

Cheryl H. Fresch (New Mexico). "Blake’s Glimpses of Milton's Goblins: Imaging the Un-lmaginable"

Milton's Imagery
Tennessee Room
Jane Hiles (Samford), Chair

Susannah B. Mintz (St. John's). "Miltonic Eating: On Gaping Mouths and Undigested Gobbets"

Charles helm (British Columbia). "Beholding All Time: The Fragrance of God's Words in Paradise Lost"

Louis Schwartz (Richmond), "The 'Womb of waters' and the 'Firm Opacious Globe': Some Speculations on the Function of Reproductive Imagery in Milton's Descriptions of the Outer Spheres of the Created Universe"

Echoes of Shakespeare
Oaklands Room
Hugh Wilson (Texas Tech), Chair

William A. Coulter (Randolph-Macon), "Waxing Wise by Experience: Acquired Understanding in King Lear and Paradise Lost"

Catherine Gimelli Martin (Memphis), "Mimesis and Morality: Satan, Macbeth, and the Ontogenesis of Evil in Paradise Lost"

Peter M. McCluskey (Middle Tennessee State), "The Toad at Eve's Ear"

Theological Concerns
Stones River Room
Claude Stulting (Furman), Chair

Gen Ohinata (Kwansei Gakuin), "Ambiguities in Paradise Lost"

Michael Bryson (Northwestern), "'That be far from thee': Divine Evil and Milton's Attempt to 'Justify the ways of God to men'"

John C. Ulreich (Arizona), "Making the Word Flesh: Milton's Incarnational Theory of Accommodation"

Marjorie Rubright (Missouri-Columbia), "All Ignorant that Soule, that Sees . . . Without Wonder': The Gaze that Would Diminish Wonder in Milton's Paradise Lost"

Kent R. Lehnhof (Duke), "'The Great Potentate': Satan and the Virility of Evil in Paradise Lost"

Paula M. Woods (Baylor), "The Fall and The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity: Richard Hooker Explains It All"

Poetics and Politics I
Tennessee Room
Mark Kelley (CUNY), Chair

Amy Stackhouse (West Georgia). "Redeeming Eve in the 1671 Volume"

Susan Porter (Saskatchewan). "Dual Citizenship: Autonomy, Affect, and Authority in Milton's Brotherhood of Fathers"

Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler (Southwest Texas). "Vanitas Vanitatis Omnia Vanitas?: John Milton, William Marshall, and the Two Frontispieces of Poems 1645"

Ambiguities and Endings
Oaklands Room
Jeff Vasseur (Valdosta State), Chair

Gardner Campbell (Mary Washington). "Milton Bound"

Seth Lobis (Yale). "Place and the End of Paradise Lost"

Peter E. Medine (Arizona), "Adam's 'Sum of Wisdom': Paradise Lost XII. 555-587"

Questions of Text
Stones River Room
James A. Freeman (Massachusetts), Chair

Michael J. Schwartz (NYU), "The Political Inaccuracy of Milton's Psalm Translations"

John Leonard (Western Ontario), "Likely Stories: Milton's Inaccurate Allusions"

Roy Flannagan (Ohio), "Opinionated Footnotes, Real and Rumored"

Edward Jones (Oklahoma State), "'Church-Outed by the Prelates': Milton, St. Michael's, and the 1637 Visitation"

Jameela Lares (Southern Mississippi), "Milton and Vocation: An Alternate Construction"

Robert T. Fallen (La Salle), "A Second Defence: Milton's Critique of Cromwell?"

Language and Genre
Tennessee Room
Kemmer Anderson (McCallie), Chair

Matthew Prineas (Idaho State), "Davidic Milton: Observing Decorum in Psalms 1-8"

Sandra Mayfield (Central Oklahoma), "The Lovely Form of Truth: Bodies and Texts in Milton's Areopagitica"

Lewis Walker (UNC-Wilmington), "Or Call up him that left half told / The story or Cambuscan bold': Milton and the Attraction of Incompletion"

Prose Works
Oaklands Room
Sheri Gravett (Valdosta State), Chair

William B. Hunter, " De Doctrina Christiana: Nunc Quo Vadis"

Shari A. Zimmerman (Hofstra), "From 'Faining Formality' to 'Polluting Sadness': Milton's Vexed Text: or, Crying (Like a Woman) on the Altar of the Lord"

Richard J. DuRocher (St. Olaf), "A Divorce Made in Heaven: Natural Astrology in Milton's Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce"

John T. Shawcross (Kentucky), Introduction
Albert C. Labriola (Duquesne), Moderator
Joan Heiges Blythe (Kentucky)
Robert Entzminger (Rhodes)
Michael Lieb (Illinois at Chicago)
David Lowenstein (Wisconsin)

Nora J. Bellows (Maryland), "'Thou canst not touch the freedom of my minde': Conscience as the Liberatory Politic in the Trial of the Lady's Chastity"

Chris Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill), " Comus and the Critique of the Masquing Court"

Jeffrey Theis (Wisconsin), "Betrayed by Pastoral?: Comus, the Attendant Spirit, and Pastoral Disguise in Milton's A Masque"

Hong W. Suh (Yonsei), "'Fain Would’ I Something Say, Yet to What End?': The Lady's Silence in Milton's Comus"

Samson Agonistes
Tennessee Room
Blair Hoxby (Yale), Chair

Lynne Greenberg (CUNY), "Dalila's `feminine assaults': The Gendering and Engendering of Crime in Samson Agonistes"

Angelica Duran (Stanford), " Samson Agonistes and Natural Theology"

Will Fisher (CUNY), "Samson's Severed Lochs: Hair in Milton's Samson Agonistes"

Derek N. C. Wood (St. Francis Xavier), "The Structure of Samson Agonistes"

Paradise Lost and Gender Issues
Oaklands Room
Gina Hausknecht (Coe), Chair

Margaret Dean (Eastern Kentucky), "The Education of Eve"

Kelly Hancock (Middle Tennessee State), "'Human Left from Human Free': The Greater Implications of the First Marriage in Milton's Paradise Lost"

Alice Mathews (North Texas), "Eve's 'Sweet Converse': Conversational Patterns in Paradise Lost"

Desma Polydorou (CUNY). "Gender and Spiritual Equality In Marriage: A Dialogic Reading of Rachel Speght and John Milton"

Miltonic Influence
Stones River Room
Asfar Hussain (Washington State), Chair

Jay Stubblefield (Texas A & M International), "The 'Vulgar' Milton: An Old Looking-Glass and Public Print Discourse in Colonial New England"

0. Glade Hunsaker (Brigham Young), "Milton and Wesley: Arminianism at the Centrum"

Margaret Arnold (Kansas), "Miltonic Echoes in A. S. Byatt's Angels and Insects"

David Boocker (Tennessee Technological), "Milton in ‘Performance’: Introducing Chief Seattle"

Cheryl H. Fresch (New Mexico), Moderator
Sharon Achinstein (Maryland)
Dennis Danielson (British Columbia)
John Rogers (Yale)

John N. McDaniel, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Middle Tennessee State University