Description: Situates the works, legend and reception of the Renaissance poet and politician John Milton within the network of disability, embodiment and care studies.
Brief description: 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 (2009-2013), Interim Director of Creative Writing (2022-24) 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 (2012-21) of the Milton Society of America, on the editorial board of Milton Quarterly (2005-) and as Conference Chair of the Renaissance Society of America (2022-27).
Review Quotes: This timely collection breaks important new ground by addressing the divide between Milton scholarship and Critical Disability Studies. Contributors offer fresh and innovative insights on Milton's self-representations and literary imaginings of blindness, as well as on his lived experience of embodied disability and access to the world of care.--Laura L. Knoppers, University of Notre Dame