Program The 1997 Conference on John Milton October 23-25, 1997 Sponsored bythe English Department Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, Tennessee

"But Mercy first and last shall brightest shine." Paradise Lost 3.134

Directors	Conference Advisors	Acknowledgements
	Schedule
Early Poems	Issues of Christian Doctrine	Milton and Women Writers
Paradise Lost: Of Education and Edenic Life	Greek and Hebrew Influence	Paradise Lost: Gender Issues
Textual Issues	Prose	Welcome and Plenary Address
Samson Agonistes	Socrates, Jesus, and the Muse	Of Religion
Of Sight and Smell	Milton Tensions	Milton and Influence
Authors and Allegory	The Miltonic Eye	The Sufficiency of Eve
Ecology and Equality	Classical Influences	Chaos and Cosmology
Panel Discussion	Official Closing	link to Milton Quarterly

Directors of the 1997 Conference on John Milton

Charles W. Durham, Middle Tennessee State University
Kristin A. Pruitt, Christian Brothers University
Kevin J. Donovan, Middle Tennessee State University

Conference Advisors
John T. Shawcross, University of Kentucky
Donald P. McDonough, Central Connecticut State University

Acknowledgments
The directors gratefully acknowledge the support they have received from:

MTSU Department of English	The Virginia Peck Foundation Trust Fund	MTSU Print Shop	MTSU Publications and Graphics
Ayne Cantrell	Bill Connelly	Judy Cox	Joan Fraley
Larry Gentry	Sheila Hardaway	David Lavery	Shari Long
John McDaniel	Peter Medine	Virginia Pruitt	Ken Robertson
James P. Shea	Judy Slagle	Steve Tambornini	The Murfreesboro Holiday Inn Staff

William Blake's The-Angel of the Divine Presence Clothing Adam and Eve is reproduced by permission of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England.

Schedule of Events
Thursday, October 23

6:30-8:30 p.m. Reception

Friday, October 24

Early Poems 9:00-10:15 a.m. Cannonsburgh Room Catherine Cox (Texas A&M Corpus Christi), Chair

• W. Gardner Campbell (Mary Washington), "Of Comus's Party: Temptation in A Maske"
• Pitt Harding (Georgia State), "'Comes the Blind Fury': Convergent Myths at Lycidas 75"
• Paula M. Woods (Baylor), "A Beginning: Music Imagery in 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"'

Issues of Christian Doctrine 9:00-10:15 a.m. Tennessee Room David Bradshaw (Warren Wilson), Chair

• Paul Sellin (UCLA), "'If Not Milton, Who Did Write the DDC?': The Amyraldian Connection"
• Kenneth Borris (McGill), "Milton's Heterodoxy of the Incarnation in Paradise Lost"
• John Rogers (Yale), "Transported Touch: The Fruit of Marriage in Paradise Lost"

Milton and Women Writers 9:00-10:15 a.m. Oaklands Room Marion Hollings (Middle Tennessee State, Chair

• John Ulreich (Arizona), "Answerable Styles I: Lanyer and Milton Rewriting the Bible"
• Kari McBride (Arizona), 'Answerable Styles II: Lanyer and Milton Rewriting the Social Text"
• Susan Porter (Saskatchewan), "Puritan Voluntarism, Gender, and the Voice of Innocent Authority in Paradise Lost and Anne Bradstreet's 'Contemplations"'

Paradise Lost: Of Education and Edenic Life 9:00-10:15 a.m. Stones River Room Margaret Dean (Eastern Kentucky), Chair

• Angelica Cassutt (Stanford), "Practical Pedagogy in Of Education and Paradise Lost"
• Gen Ohinata (Kwansei Gakuin), "Domesticity in Paradise Lost"
• Ann-Maria Contarino (St. Anselm), " Paradise Lost: Pastoral to Epic"

10:15-10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

Greek and Hebrew Influence 10:30-11:45 a.m. Cannonsburgh Room Jeff Cass (Texas A&M International), Chair

• Peggy Samuels (Drew), "Riding the Hebrew Word-Webs"
• Larry Isitt (College of the Ozarks), "'Frozen Passivity': Milton's Un-Biblical Style in Depicting God in Paradise Lost"
• Richard J. DuRocher (St. Olaf), "Rejecting the Classics: Milton on Learning and Wisdom Yet Once More"

Paradise Lost: Gender Issues 10:30-11:45 a.m. Tennessee Room Margaret Arnold (Kansas), Chair

• Jessica Tvordi (Arizona), "Polymorphous Perversity and the Invention of Heterosexuality in Paradise Lost"
• Casey Charles (Montana), "Milton's Lost Paradise: Desire and the Disruption of the Ideology of Eden"
• Susan J. McDonald (Western Ontario), "'Wide Was the Wound': Caesarean Section and the Birth of Eve"

Textual Issues 10:30-11:45 a.m. Oaklands Room Thomas Wilmeth (Concordia),- Chair

• Matthew Prineas (Idaho State), "Difficult Passions: Teaching the English Poems of 1645"
• Stephen Dobranski (Georgia State), "The Poet John Milton, 1673"
• Hugh Wilson (Texas Tech), "Unraveling the Snarled Chronology of Milton's Earliest 'Lived xxx

Prose 10:30-11:45 a.m. Stones River Room Jane Hiles (Samford), Chair

• Matthew Sheehan (Arizona), "The 'Textual Self': Masculine Subjectivity in Milton's Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce"
• Stephen Fallon (Notre Dame), "Self-representation and Anxiety in Milton's Prose, 1649-1655"
• Lawrence F. Rhu (South Carolina), "Milton at the Movies: Stanley Cavell's Arrogation of Two Passages from The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce"

11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Lunch Break (On your own)

Welcome and Plenary Address 1:30-2:30 p.m. Stones River Room

• Donald L. Curry, Dean of the Graduate College, Middle Tennessee State University, Welcome

• Michael Lieb (University of Illinois at Chicago), "Adam's Story: Testimony and Transition in Paradise Lost"

2:30-2:45 p.m. Coffee Break

Samson Agonistes 2:45-4:00 p.m. Cannonsburgh Room Robert Entzminger (Rhodes), Chair

• Jonathan Rogers (Vanderbilt), " Samson Agonistes and Milton's Poetics of Providential History"
• Marilyn Claire Ford (Southern Mississippi), "'In the Power of Others': The Woman of Timna in Samson Agonistes"
• Derek N. Wood (St. Francis Xavier), "Divine Impulsion, Christian Anxiety, and Intertextuality in Milton's Samson Agonistes"

Socrates, Jesus, and the Muse 2:45-4:00 p.m. Tennessee Room Ted Sherman (Middle Tennessee State), Chair

• John Mulryan (St. Bonaventure), "Milton and Socrates"
• Margaret Anne Wyse (Murray State), " Paradise Regain'd as Fulfillment of the Grail Quest"
• Philip Edwards Phillips (Vanderbilt), "From Clio to Urania: Epic Invocations in The History of Britain"

Of Religion 2:45-4:00 p.m. Oaklands Room Harry V. Moore (John Calhoun State), Chair

• Jay Stubblefield (Kentucky), "A 'Supplement' and 'Vindication': The 1680 Edition of Milton's Hirelings"
• Jameela Lares (Southern Mississippi), "Milton and Preaching Theory: The Evidence of Christ's College, Cambridge"
• Hong W. Suh (Notre Dame), "Belial, Popery, True Religion: Milton's Of True Religion and Anti-Papist Sentiment"

Of Sight and Smell 2:45-4:00 p.m. Stones River Room Joan Hartwig (Kentucky), Chair

• Elizabeth K. Hill (St. John's), "Inlaid Intent: Milton and Emblems Once More"
• Wendy Furman (Whittier), "'Metaphysical Tears': Carlotta Petrina's Re-presentation of Paradise Lost, Book IX"
• Jane L. Riggs (Kentucky), "The Scents of Choice: Milton's Use of Smell in Paradise Lost"

4:00-4:15 p.m. Coffee Break

Miltonic Tensions 4:15-5:30 p.m. Cannonsburgh Room Sandra Hayfield (Central Oklahoma), Chair

• Hugh Jenkins (Union College), "In the Name of the Father: Milton, Winstanley, and Cromwell"
• Blair Hobby (Yale), "The Economic Imperatives of Milton's Readie and Easie WasrI'
• William Moeck (CUNY), "Coleridge and the Reversal of Myth in the Figtree Simile-of--Ea ad-ise -Lost-"

Milton and Influence 4:15-5:30 p.m. Tennessee Room Nancy Lee-Riffe (Eastern Kentucky), Chair

• A. M. Cinquemani (SUNY, New Paltz), "Coltellini's Atomic as Tuscan Areopagitica"
• David Boocker (Tennessee Technological), "Thomas Wright of Durham: A Study of Milton's Influence on the Study of Cosmology"
• Alice Mathews (North Texas), "Perversity as Paradox: The Pattern of Paradise Lost in Lord Jim"

Authors and Allegory 4:15-5:30 p.m. Oaklands Room Estella Schoenberg (Buffalo State), Chair

• Amy D. Stackhouse (Maryland), "Reading God: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Authors and Readers in Paradise Lost"
• Timothy Rosendale (Northwestern), "'Bad Fruit of Knowledge, If This Be to Know': Epistemology, Guilt, and Reading in Paradise Lost"
• Sarah Morrison (Morehead State), "When Worlds Collide: The Central Naturalistic Narrative and the Allegorical Dimension to Paradise Lost"

The Miltonic Eye 4:15-5:30 p.m. Stones River Room Vickie Hodges (Houston), Chair

• Cheryl Fresch (New Mexico), "Aside the Devil Turned / For Envy': The Evil Eye in Milton's Epithalamium"
• O. Glade Hunsaker (Brigham Young), " Samson Agonistes: Scriptural Text Illuminated by the Celestial Inner Light of the Blind Poet-Priest"
• Stephen P. Thomas (Arizona), "The Primacy of the Eye: Vision, Destruction, and the Body Politic in Samson Agonistes"

7:00 p.m. Cash Bar, Stones River Room

8:00 p.m. Dinner (Casual Dress), Stones-River Room Saturday, October 25

The Sufficiency of Eve 8:30-10:15 a.m. Cannonsburgh Room Peter Medine (Arizona), Chair

• Ben Faber (Atlantic Baptist), ''The Spare Rib Fixes Lunch: Paradise Lost 5.303-349"
• Ann Gulden (Oslo), "A Metamorphosis of Wisdom: Eve's Dinner-Party and New Departure"
• Lynne Greenberg (CUNY), "John Milton's Social Contract: Informed Consent and Free Will in the Garden of Eden"
• Cheryl Thrash (West Georgia), "Educating Eve"

Ecology and Equality 8:30-10:15 a.m. Tennessee Room Diane McColley (Rutgers), Chair

• Fred M. McCormick, IV (Kentucky), "'Low in the Earth': Progressive Attitudes Toward Nature in Milton's Psalm 114"
• Alan Rudrum (Simon Fraser), "'For Then the Earth Shall Be All Paradise': Milton, Vaughan, and the neo-Calvinists on the Ecology of the Hereafter"
• Joan Blythe (Kentucky), "Figures in the Landscape: Milton and J. M. W. Turner"
• Robert Thomas Fallon (LaSalle), "'Seem'd' and Equality in the Garden"

Classical Influences 8:30-10:15 a.m. Oaklands Room Louis Schwartz (Richmond), Chair

• Mark Desiderio (CUNY), " Paradise Lost and the Negation of Ekphrasis"
• Raphael Falco (Maryland, Baltimore County), "Satan and Servius: Milton's-Use of the Helen-Episode ( Aeneid 2.567-88)"
• Claude Stulting (Furman), " Pedeia and Theosis in the Writings of Gregory of Nyssa and the Prelapsarian Books of Milton's Paradise Lost"
• James H. Sims (Houghton), "Epic Flight in Ariosto and Milton"

Chaos and Cosmology 8:30-10:15 a.m. Stones River Room Mary F. Norton (Western Carolina), Chair

• William B. Hunter (Houston), "The Confounded Confusion of Chaos"
• John Leonard (Western Ontario), "Unessential Night"
• John Rumrich (Texas), "Of Chaos and Nightingales"
• Dennis Danielson (British Columbia), "Locating Our World: Milton's Rejection of Copernican Anthropocentrism"

10:15-10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

Panel Discussion 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Stones River Room "Additional Reflections on -'Adam's Story"' Roy Flannagan (Ohio), Moderator

• Mario Di Cesare (SUNY Binghamton)
• J. Martin Evans (Stanford)
• Anna Nardo (Louisiana State)

Official Closing

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