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 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:

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

• 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"'

• 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"

• 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"'

• 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"

• 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"

• 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"

• 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

• 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)
 

• 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"

• 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"

• 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"

• 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"

• 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"

• 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-"

• 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"

• 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"

• 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"

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

• 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"

• 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"

• 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"

• 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"

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

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