The 2013 Conference on John Milton - Middle Tennessee State ...

<strong>The</strong> <strong>2013</strong> <strong>Conference</strong>
on John Milton
October 17-19, <strong>2013</strong>
Sponsored by the English Department
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
All conference activities will be held at the Doubletree Hotel–Murfreesboro.
Schedule of Events
Thursday, October 17
Reception
Salons A-C
Friday, October 18
Official Welcome and Plenary Address
Salons A-C
Brad Bartel, University Provost
(Middle Tennessee)
6:30-8:30 p.m.
9:00-10:00 a.m.
John Rogers (Yale)
“Newton Reads Milton: Heresies of Creation in the Principia and Paradise Lost”
Coffee Break
Samson Agonistes
Salon A
10:00-10:15 a.m
10:15-11:30 a.m.
William Shullenberger (Sarah Lawrence)
“Samson’s Bondage”
Taylor Johnston (California–Berkeley)
“‘Not deceav’d’: Samson Agonistes and Milton’s Adam”
Ben LaBreche (Mary Washington)
“Samson Agonistes, Castelvetro, and the People”

Milton and Religious Concerns
10:15-11:30 a.m.
Salon B
Cori Perdue (Alabama)
“Passion and the Heart: ‘Nothing Satisfied’”
Nathan John Haydon (Nashotah House <strong>The</strong>ological Seminary)
“‘Every joint and sinew of the mystical body’: A Miltonic <strong>The</strong>ology of the Body”
Tessie Prakas (Yale)
“‘<strong>The</strong> image of thy strength and mighty minister’: Samson Agonistes as Ecclesiastical Critique”
Milton and the Book
10:15-11:30 a.m.
Salon C
Elizabeth Bradburn (Western Michigan)
“Narrrative and Poetic Segmentivity in Paradise Lost”
George Moore (Connecticut)
“Unskillful Hands: Pictorial and Textual Constructions of Authorship
in Milton’s 1645 Frontispiece”
William John Silverman (Southern Virginia)
“Finding the Right Meaning: Paradise Lost in the Post-War Age of Mass Production”
Milton and De Doctrina Christiana
10:15-11:30 a.m.
Rosecran Room
Thomas Festa (SUNY–New Paltz))
“‘Articles and Particles’ of Heretical Faith in De Doctrina Christiana”
Jason A. Kerr (Brigham Young)
“Milton’s Latin Bible: <strong>The</strong>ological Process in De Doctrina Christiana”
Hugh Wilson (Grambling State)
“De Doctrina Christiana and the Possibilities of Forgery:
Or, <strong>The</strong> Emperor’s new Clothes Re-Examined”
Coffee Break
11:30-11:45 a.m.

Milton and Education
Salon A
11:45 a.m-1:00 p.m.
Steven Aaron Minas (Georgetown)
“‘Indefatigable Vertue’: Milton and Plato on the Education of Virtue”
Jeffrey Gore (Illinois–Chicago)
“‘Managing a crudity’: John Milton and the Hartlib Circle Revisited”
David Ainsworth (Alabama)
“Teaching Milton with the Edifice Project:
Undergraduate Research Aimed at Undergraduates”
Paradise Lost I
Salon B
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Ryan Netzley (Southern Illinois)
“Learning from History: Empiricism, Likeness, and Liberty
in Paradise Lost, Books 11-12”
Frank Sharpe (Alabama)
“<strong>The</strong> River-Dragon Tamed: A Typological Reading of Milton’s Moses”
Chris Barrett (Louisiana State)
“‘<strong>The</strong> Map You Cannot See: Paradise Lost and the Poetics of Navigation”
Milton and the Classics I
Salon C
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
David J. Bradshaw (Warren Wilson)
“Allusions to Virgil’s Turnus and Homer’s Hektor in Milton’s Presentation
Of Satan on Niphates”
Anthony Welch (Tennessee)
“Eve’s Dream, Virgil’s Allecto, and the Specter of Enthusiasm”
J. Antonio Templanza (Yale)
“‘<strong>The</strong> First and Wisest of <strong>The</strong>m All’: Paradise Regained and the Beginning of Thinking”

Paradise Lost: Satan
Rosecran Room
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Alexie McPherson (Tennessee–Chattanooga)
“Successful Beyond Hope: <strong>The</strong> Apocatastasis of Satan in Paradise Lost”
Kevin Windhauser (Saint Benedict/Saint John’s)
“‘A Lower Deep Still Threatening to Devour Me’:
Satan, Internalization, and the ‘New Purgatory’”
John Mulryan (St. Bonaventure)
“Prototypes of Milton’s Satan in Dante’s Inferno”
Lunch Break (on your own)
Paradise Lost: Angelology
Salon A
1:00-2:30 p.m.
2:30-3:45 p.m.
Rebecca Buckham (Johns Hopkins)
“A Different Kind of Difference:
Materiality, Experience, and the Angel-Human Relation in Paradise Lost”
Stephen B. Dobranski (Georgia State)
“What Do Bad Angels Look Like?”
Lara Dodds (Mississippi State)
“Dark Looks and Red Smiles: Homeric Gesture and the Problem of Milton’s Angels”
Paradise Regained
Salon B
2:30-3:45 p.m.
Warren Tormey (Middle Tennessee)
“‘<strong>The</strong> Wilderness / For thee is fittest place’:
Post-postlapsarian Landscapes in Paradise Regained”
Erin Murphy (Boston University)
“<strong>The</strong> Genealogical Struggles of Paradise Regained”
Sarah Marie Ritcheson (Miami)
“<strong>The</strong> Restoration Politics of Paradise Regained”

Milton and Early Modern Legal Issues
Salon C
2:30-3:45 p.m.
Alison A. Chapman (Alabama–Birmingham)
“Satan’s Pardon: Paradise Lost and the Forms of Judicial Mercy”
Sarah Higinbotham (Georgia State)
“God’s Red Right Hand: Legal Aesthetics in Paradise Lost”
Brett A. Hudson (Middle Tennessee)
“<strong>The</strong> Post-Restoration Readership of Milton’s Psalm Translations
and the Legal Trials of Nonconformists”
Paradise Lost and Gender
Rosecran Room
2:30-3:45 p.m.
Mary Grace Elliott (Georgia State)
“‘In narrow room nature’s whole wealth’: A Harmonious Paradise”
Julianna Edmonds (Tennessee–Chattanooga)
“<strong>The</strong> First Couple as Prima Materia: Gender and Monism in Paradise Lost”
Sharon Bandy (Tennessee–Chattanooga)
“‘A Shape Within the Wat’ry Gleam’: Eve’s Earthly Impression in Paradise Lost”
Coffee Break
3:45-4:00 p.m.
Milton and Early Modernism I
Salon A
4:00-5:15 p.m.
Edward Jones (Oklahoma State)
“Milton’s Final Stop: Bunhill Row, the Artillery Wall, and the Hearth Tax”
James Ross Macdonald (Yale)
“Angelic Affection and Guardianship in Paradise Lost”
David Boocker (Nebraska–Omaha)
“Milton’s Dialogue on Astronomy”

Paradise Lost: Imagery
Salon B
4:00-5:15 p.m.
Brendan Prawdzik (Christian Brothers)
“<strong>The</strong>ater of Vegetable Love and the Covert Fall in Milton’s Eden”
Lauren Shohet (Villanova)
“<strong>The</strong> Fragrance of the Fall”
Eric Song (Swarthmore)
“Exact of Taste”
Areopagitica
Salon C
4:00-5:15 p.m.
D. Geoffrey Emerson (Alabama)
“A Defense against Moral Relativism: Areopagitica’s Use of Natural Philosophy and Casuistry”
David A. Harper (U.S.Military Academy)
“‘<strong>The</strong> Scanning of Error’: Areopagitica and 3D Printing”
Jeffrey P. Beck (Kean)
“Areopagitica and Milton’s Other Prose Works: A Quantitative Analysis”
Milton in America
Rosecran Room
4:00-5:15 p.m.
Kemmer Anderson (McCallie)
“Thomas Jefferson: ‘Much like thy Riddle Samson’”
Ian Bickford (Bard Early College)
“‘To Save the Ship’: <strong>The</strong> Portrait of a Lady and Paradise Lost”
Glenn Sucich (Northwestern)
“‘Earth with Hell to Mingle’: A Miltonic Reading of Faulkner’s ‘Dry September’”
Open Bar
Salons A-C
Dinner (Casual Attire)
6:30-7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.

Saturday, October 19
Paradise Lost II 9:00-10:15 a.m.
Salon A
Matt Dolloff (Georgia Perimeter)
“<strong>The</strong> Philosophy of Laughter in Paradise Lost”
Ryan Hackenbracht (Texas Tech)
“Milton on the Move: Walking and Self-Knowledge in Paradise Lost”
Juan Manuel Cárdenas (McGill)
“‘Daring Single to be Just’: Heroic Singularity in Paradise Lost”
Milton and Early Modernism II
Salon B
9:00-10:15 a.m.
Andrea Walkden (Queens)
“‘In their own dimensions like themselves’: Aubrey, Milton, and the Epic in Miniature”
Alex Garganigo (Austin)
“Of Apples, Oaths, and Women”
Joshua Held (Indiana)
“‘<strong>The</strong> incommunicable Jewell’: Disqualifying the Conscience of the King in Eikonoklastes”
Milton and the Arts
Salon C
9:00-10:15 a.m.
Wendy Furman-Adams (Whittier)
“Reading History in Tea Leaves: Robert Medley’s 1979 Samson Agonistes”
Reuben Sanchez (Sam Houston State)
“‘<strong>The</strong> sad Prophet Jeremiah’ as an Icon of Renaissance Melancholy”
John Rodrigue (Oklahoma State)
“Making Use of ‘Milton’: An Eighteenth-Century Adaptation of Lycidas”

Shorter Poems
Rosecran Room
9:00-10:15 a.m.
Russell Hugh McConnell (Western Ontario)
“<strong>The</strong> Path to the Secret Altar:
‘On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity’ and Accedence Commenc’t Grammar”
Tom Hester (North Carolina State)
“Milton’s Witnesses: Orpheus Imagery in Lycidas”
Michael Komorowski (Yale)
“‘On the New Forcers of Conscience’ and Milton’s Erastianism”
Coffee Break
10:15-10:30 a.m.
Paradise Lost III
Salon A
10:30-11:45 a.m.
Emily Griffiths Jones (Boston University)
“<strong>The</strong> Fall and the Summit: John Milton’s Anti-Royalist Romantic Structure in Paradise Lost”
Joan Blythe (Kentucky)
“Did Milton’s War in Heaven Inspire Napoleon’s Epic Victory at Austerlitz?”
Robert Crossley (Massachusetts–Boston)
“Paradise Lost and the Vehemence of Love”
Milton and Monism
Salon B
10:30-11:45 a.m.
Peter E. Medine (Arizona)
“Colasterion: Milton’s Response to ‘one of reprobate ignorance’”
Seth Herbst (Harvard)
“Milton, Music, and Monism”
Amy Sattler (Washington–St. Louis)
“‘In stony fetters fixt’: Monism and A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle”

Milton and Redemption/Regeneration
Salon C
10:30-11:45 a.m.
Karen Dodson (North Georgia)
“<strong>The</strong> Spirit of Truth in Paradise Regained”
Samuel Smith (Messiah)
“Overcomers in Revelation and Paradise Regained: Perfect Obedience”
David Urban (Calvin)
“Milton and the Atonement: <strong>The</strong> Son’s Whole-Life Obedience”
Milton and the Classics II
Rosecran Room
10:30-11:45 a.m.
Emma Wilson (Western Ontario)
“Shared Radical Allusions: New Intellectual Connections Between Milton and Marvell”
Erin Elizabeth Kozak (Mills)
“Lycidas and the Tradition of Divine Intrusion”
Yanxiang Wu (Western Ontario)
“Milton’s Ploughman Reconsidered”
Coffee Break
11:45 a.m.-noon
Plenary Address
Salons A-C
12:00-12:45 p.m.
Diana Treviño Benet (North Texas)
“<strong>The</strong>ology and Narrative in Paradise Lost”
Official Closing
12:45 p.m.
Kevin J. Donovan (Middle Tennessee), Charles W. Durham (Middle Tennessee), and
Kristin Pruitt (Christian Brothers University)

Registration
<strong>The</strong> registration fee of $120 includes the catered opening reception on Thursday, October, 17;
coffee and pastry on Friday and Saturday, October 18-19; and dinner on Friday, October 18. <strong>The</strong>
registration fee may be paid by check, money order, or bank draft. We cannot accept payment by
credit card. Please make checks payable to "<strong>The</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> on John Milton" and mail with the
registration form to Kevin Donovan, Department of English, P.O. Box 401, Middle Tennessee
State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37132.
Accommodations
Travel: Murfreesboro is located 35 miles south of Nashville International Airport. Anytime
Transport Shuttle Service will provide transportation between the airport and the conference site
(the Doubletree Hotel in Murfreesboro) for the special conference rate of $50 (round-trip). To
arrange airport shuttle service, use the hotlink at the conference website, or send an e-mail
message to or call toll-free at 1-877-479-5483; be sure to ask for
the conference rate. Car rental service is also available at the airport.
Lodging: All conference activities will be held at the Doubletree Hotel; the conference rate
there is $90 (plus tax) per room. For reservations, you can go directly to the Doubletree website:
; to obtain the conference rate, enter Group Code CJM. Or call 615-555-5555 Monday
through Friday, 9:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m.; or 888-488-3517 during nights and weekends.
<strong>The</strong> Doubletree will hold rooms at the conference rate until September 30; we strongly
encourage you to make reservations as soon as possible. Other area motels are listed below.
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Saturday Evening Dinner at Cortner Mill:
Once again we are organizing a trip to Cortner Mill, a picturesque country restaurant, for
conference participants who are staying over Saturday night. <strong>The</strong> cost of dinner is $30. We will
provide bus transportation for those who don’t wish to take their cars.
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Some Nearby Murfreesboro Motels
Microtel Inn
Country Inn & Suites
(615) 904-2000 (615) 890-5951
151 Chaffin Place 2262 Old Fort Parkway
Murfreesboro, TN 37129 Murfreesboro, TN 37129
Days Inn and Suites
Hampton Inn
(615) 893-8170 (615) 896-1172
I-24 Exit 78B 2230 Old Fort Parkway
Murfreesboro, TN 37129 Murfreesboro, TN 37129
Wingate Inn
Super 8 Motel
(615) 849-9000 (615) 867-5000
165 Chaffin Place 127 Chaffin Place
Murfreesboro, TN 37129 Murfreesboro, TN 37129
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REGISTRATION FORM
Name _________________________________________________
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Institution _____________________________________________________________
Mailing Address (Street) ___________________________________________________
City, State, Zip __________________________________________________________
E-mail ___________________________________________________
Fee: $______ at $120 per person for _______ registrants.
Please put ____ names on the list for dinner at Cortner Mill.
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(Feel free to wait until the conference to pay for dinner/bus.)