Women (Re)Writing Milton

Mandy Green is Associate Professor of English at Durham University where she teaches courses on Milton, Shakespeare, and Renaissance Literature. Her work on classical presences in English literature has appeared in a number of journals and edited volumes; she has also published a monograph on Milton’s Ovidian Eve (2nd edn, 2016). Sharihan Al-Akhras is a journalist who has worked in a number of media outlets and social networking services in London, including but not limited to: BBC Arabic, Al Jazeera English, and Twitter. Her PhD thesis examined the presence of Judeo-Arabic mythology in Paradise Lost. Her interests include Early Modern Literature, Middle-Eastern mythology, the demonic, Arab female authorship, East–West relations, and (social) media.

Foreword Laura L. Knoppers

Introduction Mandy Green and Sharihan Al-Akhras

Part I

Early Responses by English Women Writers: Poetry and Prose

Chapter 1 Lucy Hutchinson’s Irrepressible Eve Allan Drew

Chapter 2 ‘Soaring in the high region of her fancies’: The Female Poet and the

Cosmic Voyage’ Thomas R. Tyrrell

Chapter 3 ‘Two Great Sexes Animate the World’: Looking Past ‘Milton’s Bogey’ in

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’ Mandy Green

Part II

Global Perspectives: Biographies, Translations, Novels and the Internet

II.1 Nineteenth and twentieth-century responses

Chapter 4 The Return of William Wells Brown: A Heroic Black Miltonist in Josephine

Brown’s Miltonic Biography of Her Father’ Reginald A. Wilburn

Chapter 5 Emilia Pardo Bazán and Milton’s Spanish Afterlife Angelica Duran

Chapter 6 I Am Not ‘Masculine’ I Am Weak: Ágnes Nemes Nagy’s Translation of

Sonnet 23’ Miklós Péti

II.2 Contemporary responses

Chapter 7 Milton’s Domestic Life and the Tempering of Female Ambition in Kim

Wilkins’ Angel of Ruin Larisa Kocic-Zámbó

Chapter 8 From Hell to Paradise: Miltonic Presences in Beatriz Bracher’s

Anatomia do Paraíso Renata Meints Adail

Chapter 9 Milton and Arab Female Authorship in the Age of Social Media

Sharihan Al-Akhras

Part III

Milton through the Female Gaze

III.1 Women Re-reading Milton: Education and Theory

Chapter 10 ‘Beyond Milton’s Daughters: Dorothy Dury, Lady Ranelagh, and the

Question of Female Education Shannon Miller

Chapter 11 ‘Queer Opening’: Eve’s Readers and Writers Stephanie Spoto

Chapter 12 ‘Paradise within’: A Post-Jungian Revisiting of the Feminine in

Milton’s Paradise Lost’ Roula Maria Dib

III.2 Milton Visualised: Digital Media, Art, and Performance

Chapter 13 Gendered Reflections on an All-Day Reading of Paradise Lost

Jameela Lares and Kayla M. Schreiber

Chapter 14 Other Eyes: Women Artists Rewriting Paradise Lost

Wendy Furman-Adams

Chapter 15 Women Directing Milton: Feminist Stagings of Miltonic Seduction

Farah Karim-Cooper