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From: SHARP-L Society for the History of Authorship, Reading &
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Subject: Folger Institute late-spring seminar on Making of Paradise Lost
Calling all Miltonists! Faculty and graduate students should consider
applying for this five-week, late-spring seminar directed by Thomas
Corns at the Folger Institute.
The Making of Paradise Lost
A Late-Spring Seminar directed by Thomas N. Corns
This seminar derives from the intersection of several methodologies-the
history of the book, analytical bibliography, and historically informed
literary criticism-and explores, as if biographically, the antecedents,
conception, gestation, production, and the early life of Paradise Lost.
It attempts to model early readers' expectations of a retelling of a
biblical story through a consideration of the works of du Bartas and
Francis Quarles. It examines the process of composition as documented in
the early lives of Milton and in the manuscript to Book One. It
considers the conditions for the production and circulation of printed
books in the immediate aftermath of the Great Fire of London; it
explores the work of the Simmons printing house and the firm's
relationship with Milton; and it charts the businesses of the
booksellers associated with each of the issues of the first edition,
before considering the changes, in content, in format, in appearance and
in distribution, between that and the second edition of 1674. It
examines the marginal comments of early readers. The seminar concludes
with a review of the later seventeenth-century editions as the work
acquires its first illustrations and its earliest annotation.
Director: Thomas N. Corns is Professor of English at Bangor University,
Wales. His recent publications include John Milton and the Manuscript of
De Doctrina Christiana (2007) and John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought
(2008, with Gordon Campbell). He is co-editing Paradise Lost with David
Loewenstein for The Complete Works of John Milton, of which (with Gordon
Campbell) he is general editor.
Schedule: Thursdays and Fridays, 1 - 4:30 p.m., 19 May through 17 June
2011.
Apply: 7 January 2011 for admission (and grants-in-aid for Folger
Institute consortium affiliates). Visit www.folger.edu/institute to
access application guidelines and the Institute's online form.
Questions? Please contact [log in to unmask]
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