Description: Locating Milton collects nine previously unpublished essays which examine Milton's works as the product of the intellectual and experiential influences Milton encountered, while also tracing the ways in which those works themselves express their influence. The essays show how Milton locates himself within intellectual traditions, and how others locate him.
Brief description: Thomas Festa is Professor of English at the State University of New York, New Paltz. He is the author of The End of Learning: Milton and Education (2006) and some two dozen scholarly articles as well as co-editor of the award-winning feminist teaching anthology, Early Modern Women on the Fall (2012), and two previous essay collections dedicated to Milton's works, Milton, Materialism, and Embodiment (2017) and Scholarly Milton (2019).
Review Quotes:
'Together, the essays invite readers (in the spirit of Emerson's contribution) to think about the perspectives that produce the various models of Milton that populate our teaching and research... the collection's conceptual framework is a welcome contribution to Milton studies.' Jason A. Kerr, Seventeenth-Century News