Milton Studies: Volume 58, Milton in the Americas

Traditionally hailed as a champion of various forms of liberty and toleration, and creator of a new-modeled Eden, Milton came to occupy a privileged place in genealogies of liberalism, modernity, and the history of revolution against repression. In the decades immediately following the American Revolution alone (1765-1783), Milton’s collected poems were produced in about 28 different Anglo-American editions, and more recently his influence in Latin American writing has been noted. This collection showcases Miltonic encounters within the Americas-early modern to contemporary-and multiple ways of gauging those encounters, surveying how Milton is received, translated, rewritten, and appropriated to speak anew, generating a rich array of literary and critical afterlives throughout the American continents.