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Milton and the Network of Disability, Embodiment and Care

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The governing questions of Milton and the Network of Disability, Embodiment and Care are threefold: What does reading Milton's texts and literature generally through the theoretical lens of disability, embodiment and care studies (DEC) reveal that was illegible before? How have Milton's visual and mobility impairments,... Read More
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Situates the works, legend and reception of the Renaissance poet and politician John Milton within the network of disability, embodiment and care studies.

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The governing questions of Milton and the Network of Disability, Embodiment and Care are threefold: What does reading Milton's texts and literature generally through the theoretical lens of disability, embodiment and care studies (DEC) reveal that was illegible before? How have Milton's visual and mobility impairments, as well as his artistic representations of human biodiversity, factored into his status as a canonical author? And what insights does bringing a DEC lens to Milton's body of work and its reception give us into literature and longstanding stereotypes about humans and their cultural and physical environments? The thirteen chapters, Foreword and Afterword of this collection, composed by established and emerging scholars, provide cogent answers by drawing on the contributors' expertise in various fields. The volume advances what Milton's texts from sonnet to epic and political tract to tragedy can tell us about not only literary representations of human variation, physical and mental, but also cultural responses to disability, embodiment and care that affect all readers and all people today.

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Early Modern Literature and Disability

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781399541459

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 31 December 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Edinburgh University Press

Illustration: 7 black & white illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited by Angelica Duran
  • Edited by Pasquale Toscano

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 296

About the Author

Angelica Duran is Professor of English, Comparative Literature and Religious Studies at Purdue University, where she has also served as Purdue's Director of Religious Studies (20092013), Interim Director of Creative Writing (202224) and affiliate faculty of Critical Disability Studies. She is the author, editor and co-editor of ten books, including Milton among Spaniards (2020), Global Milton and Visual Art (2021) and Milton Across Borders and Media (2023). She has served on the Executive Committee (201221) of the Milton Society of America, on the editorial board of Milton Quarterly (2005) and as Conference Chair of the Renaissance Society of America (202227). Pasquale Toscano is Assistant Professor of English at Vassar College, after earning a master's degree in Classics from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and a PhD in English from Princeton University. He is a co-winner of the Sixteenth Century Society's Harold J. Grimm Prize for scholarship on the Reformation and was named a 202324 Peter Ogden Jacobus Fellow, Princeton's highest honour for graduate students. His scholarship appears in Studies in English Literature, 15501900 (SEL), Classical Receptions Journal, Disability Studies Quarterly, The Oxford Handbook of George Herbert and Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness. His public-facing and creative writing focus primarily on disability-related issues and appear in The New York Times, The Atlantic and other venues.

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