Scholarly Milton

Followingthe editors’ introduction to the collection, the essays in Scholarly Milton examine thenature of Milton’s own formidable scholarship and its implications for hisprose and poetry–“scholarly Milton” the writer–as well as subsequent scholars’historical and theoretical framing of Milton studies as an object of scholarlyattention–“scholarly Milton” as at first an emergent and later an establishedacademic discipline.

The essays are particularly concerned with the topics ofthe ethical ends of learning, of Milton’s attention to the trivium within theRenaissance humanist educational system, and the development of scholarlycommentary on Milton’s writings. Originally selected from the best essayspresented at the 2015 Conference on John Milton in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, theessays have been considerably revised and expanded for publication.