Milton and the Seventeenth Century
Term 2
TTh, 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
This course is an intensive textual and historical study of Milton’s great epic Paradise Lost, with some attention given to his anti-censorship tract Areopagitica. Our conversations will engage Milton’s biographical, literary, linguistic, scientific, artistic, and critical contexts. Students will be encouraged to investigate and to draw as many connections as they can between Milton and the many other momentous developments (both in England and beyond) that took place in his lifetime.
