Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/24/2024
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location
4188 JFSB
Category(ies)
Susanne Woods (Miami & Brown University), a preeminent scholar of British literature who pioneered the study of early modern women writers, will join the Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MARS) research group on Thursday, October 24 @ 11:00 in 4188 JFSB. Her talk will focus on the representations of Eve and freedom in the poetry of Aemila Lanyer and John Milton. A light lunch will be served.
Title: “‘Then let us have our liberty again’: Milton and Lanyer on Eve and Human Freedom”
Aemilia Lanyer published a groundbreaking collection of poems, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, in 1611, and John Milton first published his masterpiece, Paradise Lost, in 1667. The gender perspectives of these seventeenth-century poets provide an interesting contrast in their assumptions about Eve and the Fall of humankind, and reveal a startling radicalism from this early woman poet.
