Milton''s Moving Bodies

This volume brings unprecedented focus to the forms, spaces, and implications of embodied motion in Miltons writing and its afterlives to explore how and why he privileges the bodyhuman and textualas a site of dynamic movement. The contributors bring a variety of lenses to Miltons moving bodies: political history, kinematics, mathematics, cosmology, translation, illustration, anatomies of racialized and disabled bodies, and twenty-first-century pedagogies. From these wide-ranging vantage points, they consider anew Miltons contributions to the histories of scientific development, global exploration and imperial expansion, migration and diaspora, and translation and adaptation in England, Europe, and the Americas, from the early modern period to today. Miltons Moving Bodies draws together established and emerging scholars, offering fresh analyses of the poets legacy for multiple traditions within and beyond Milton studies.