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Article: Milton and Gender.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2006
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Catherine Gimelli Martin, ed. Milton and Gender.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xii + 278 pp. index. illus. $75. ISBN: 0-521-84130-5.
The 1999 International Milton Symposium in York, England produced several critical collections. Among them, Graham Parry and Joad Raymond's Milton and the Terms of Liberty (2002) reflects the conference's primary focus on Milton's republicanism, while Milton and Gender derives in part from the symposium's several discussions of how gender, sexuality, reproduction, men and women, and women writers manifest themselves in Milton's work. The appearance of these two volumes suggests a split in the ...