Autres éditions des œuvres de Milton

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Agrégation d’anglais 2008
Milton, un penseur républicain à l’époque de la première révolution anglaise
Par Christophe Tournu,
UPMF, Grenoble.
[email protected]
Paris, le 6 juin 2008
Mis à jour : 7 octobre 08
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I - Autres éditions des œuvres de Milton :
Complete Prose Works of John Milton, edited by Don M. Wolfe et al, New Haven, Yale
University Press, 8 vols., 1953-82.
Areopagitica est dans le vol. 2 (1959), 485-570. Les notes abondantes sont
particulièrement précieuses. L’introduction (158-183) d’Ernest Sirluck précise le contexte de
l’écriture de ce vibrant plaidoyer pour la liberté de la presse et au-delà, pour la liberté
religieuse. **
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates est dans le vol. 3 (1962), 189-258. Là encore, les
notes sont abondantes. L’introduction est substantielle (1-167). **
John Milton: Ecrits politiques, Traduction de Marie-Madeleine Martinet, Paris, Belin, 1993.
Contient :
- la version française du texte de Mirabeau, mais l’auteur restitue les passages
qu’il omet dans sa traduction, et indique clairement les passages qu’il a ajoutés ;
- de larges extraits du Mandat des rois et des Magistrats (129-50)
Lutaud, Olivier. Milton, Pour la Liberté de la presse sans autorisation ni censure. Paris :
Aubier, 1956.
John Milton, Ecrits politiques, 1642-1660. Areopagitica, La charge des rois et des
magistrates, Eikonoklastes, Comment établir facilement et sans délai une république libre.
Trad. Renée et André Guillaume. Lausanne, L’Age d’Homme, 2007.
Traduction d’Areopagitica : pp. 14-62 (celle d’Olivier Lutaud est meilleure)
Trad. inédite de The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates : pp. 68-112.
Les traductions sont annotées ; en outre, elles sont précédées d’une courte introduction
(Areop : 9-13 ; TKM : 65-67)
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Editions électroniques fiables :
Thomas H. Luxon, Milton Reading Room
Areopagitica : http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/areopagitica/
TKM : http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/tenure/index.shtml
Autre : Structure d’Areopagitica, par Michael Bryson
http://www.michaelbryson.net/miltonweb/aeropagitica.html
Structure de The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, par Michael Bryson
http://www.michaelbryson.net/miltonweb/tenureofkings.html
II – Monographies majeures sur Milton
A paraître :
NEW: Campbell, Gordon and Corns, Thomas N., John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought.
New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming (December 15, 2008).
Drawing on insightful new findings in the study of seventeenth-century history and in a more
nuanced exploration of notions like Puritanism, republicanism, radicalism, and dissent, this book
sheds fresh light on the writings, the thought, and the life of poet John Milton, whose career
spanned one of the most turbulent periods in English history.
A more human Milton appears in these pages, a Milton who is flawed, self-contradictory, selfserving, arrogant, passionate, ruthless, ambitious, and cunning. He is also among the most
accomplished writers of the period, the most eloquent polemicist of the mid-century, and the
author of the finest and most influential narrative poem in English, Paradise Lost, which the book
examines in detail. The authors also show how, amid the chaos sparked by the shifting political
circumstances of the period, Milton emerged as a major political thinker and a significant
systematic theologian.
Working through Milton's polemical and imaginative works, the book unravels the evolution of his
thought as he moves from a culturally advanced but ideologically repressive young manhood, to
his struggle for a new reformation of the church and a defense of regicide and republicanism, and
finally to his thinking about how to retain ideological integrity in the threatening context of the
Restoration. The authors also examine his final years--years of creative fulfillment and renewed
political engagement.
What Milton achieved in the face of crippling adversity, blindness, bereavement, and political
eclipse, remains wondrous. Here is a fascinating biography of this towering literary figure--the
first new serious study in forty years--one that profoundly challenges the received wisdom about
one of England's leading poets and thinkers.
Ces auteurs sont deux des plus grands spécialistes de Milton. Ils sont coéditeurs des Complete
Works of John Milton. 11 vol. Oxford : OUP, 2009-12.
NEW: Beer, Anna. Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot. London: Bloomsbury Press
(August 5, 2008)
A fresh and engaging account of the life, times, politics, loves, and letters of the great English
poet John Milton on the four hundredth anniversary of his birth.
NEW: Forsyth, Neil. John Milton. London: Lion Hudson Plc, NYP (19 September 2008).
NEW: Hobson, Theo. Milton's Vision: The Birth of Christian Liberty. New York and London,
Continuum International Publishing Group, forthcoming. NYP. 20 October 2008.
No other writer is so grudgingly admired as Milton. He wrote great poetry, goes the received
wisdom, but his creed was narrow, chilling, and inhuman. His reputation is that of a stereotypical
Puritan and authoritarian. Yet Theo Hobson maintains that no one opposed religious
authoritarianism with such vehemence. Indeed, he argues that no one was so adamant that
political freedom is built into the Christian gospel.
Milton insisted that Protestantism was compatible with political liberty--that the two ideas are
complementary. By treating all ecclesiastical authority with suspicion, he helped to establish the
modern ideal of secularism. He was a Christian libertarian who wanted every form of church to
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wither away, so that the Gospel might be completely free of coercion. Milton's Vision is thus a
vital contribution to the contemporary debate about the place of religion in public life. There has
never been a study of Milton that highlights his relevance to the core issues of our day: how
religion gives rise to and interacts with secular ideals.
Chateaubriand. Essai sur la littérature angloise. 2 vols. 1834. Chapitre “Milton”. Web ***
Flannagan, Roy, John Milton : A Short Introduction (Oxford, Blackwell, 2002) ; 132 p. ***
(Très abordable)
Lewalski, Barbara K., The Life of John Milton. Oxford : Blackwell, 2000. *** (Excellent)
A recommander aux étudiants.
Masson, David, The Life of John Milton, Narrated in Connexion with the Historical,
Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time, 7 vol., Macmillan & Co., Cambridge,
London, 1859-94. Vol. 3 : 1643-1649. Web *** (Monumental)
Parker, William R., Milton : A Biography, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1968, rééd. avec une
préface de Gordon Campbell, 1996 ; 2 vols. ***
(http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/etext04/7mlt310.htm)
NEW: Smith, Nigel. Is Milton Better Than Shakespeare? New Haven, Ct: Harvard
University Press, (15 mai) 2008 ***
With literature waning in the interest of so many, is Shakespeare the only poet the public can still
appreciate? John Milton, as this book makes clear, speaks more powerfully to the eternal
questions and to the important concerns of our time. The Milton of this volume is an author for all
Americans—conservative, liberal, radical—not only because he was a favorite of the founding
fathers, his voice echoing through their texts and our very foundation, but also because his
visionary writing embodies the aspirations that have guided Americans seeking ideals of ethical
and spiritual perfection.
Nigel Smith makes a compelling case for Milton’s relevance to our present situation. In direct and
accessible terms, he shows how the seventeenth-century poet, while working to write the
greatest heroic poem in the English language, also managed to theorize about religious, political,
and civil liberty in ways that matter as much today as they did in Puritanical times. Through
concise chapters that chart Milton’s life at the center of the English and European literary and
political scenes—as well as his key themes of free will, freedom and slavery, love and sexual
liberty, the meaning of creation, and the nature of knowledge—Smith’s work brings Milton, his
poetry, and his prose home to readers of our day. A provocative and enlightening introduction,
for newcomers and informed readers alike, this book rediscovers and redefines Milton for a new
generation, one that especially needs and deserves to know him.
Tournu, Christophe, « John Milton, Dieu et la liberté », Revue d’Histoire et de Philosophie
Religieuses, 2002, 82 (1) ; 33-59. ***
---. « John Milton, sa vie, son œuvre » in : Milton et le droit au divorce, éd. Christophe
Tournu et Olivier Abel, Genève : Labor et Fides, 2005 ; 31-44. ***
III – Contextes historiques (histoire générale / politique) :
NEW: *** Achinstein, Sharon, Sauer, Elizabeth (ed). Milton and Toleration. New York,
Oxford University Press, (6 septembre) 2007.
Ashton, Robert, The English Civil War. Conservatism and Revolution 1603-1649. Londres,
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979.
Aymler, Gerald, Rebellion or Revolution? England 1640-1660. Oxford, Oxford UP, 1986.
Barber, Sarah, Regicide and Republicanism: Politics and Ethics in the English
Revolution, 1646-1659, Edimbourg, Edinburgh UP, 1998.
Carlton, Charles, Going to the Wars. The Experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638-1651.
Londres, Routledge, 1992.
Clark, Jonathan, Revolution and Rebellion. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1987.
Cottret, Bernard, Histoire d'Angleterre, XVIè-XVIIIè siècles. Paris, PUF, "Nouvelle Clio",
1996, réédition mise à jour, 2003.
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---. « L’Angleterre du XVIIe siècle, une société d'ancien régime? » Les sociétés anglaise,
espagnole et française au XVIIe siècle, éd. J. Montemayor, Paris, Ellipses, 2006 ; 7-22.
---. Histoire de l’Angleterre. Paris, Tallandier, 2007 ; 231-77. ***
Coward, Barry, The Stuart Age (1603-1660), Londres, Longman, 1980.
Davies, Godfrey, The Early Stuarts (1603-1660), Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1959.
Duchein, Michel, Charles Ier. L’honneur et la fidélité, Paris, Payot, 2000.
Elton, Geoffrey Rudolph, “A High Road to the Civil War?, From the Renaissance to the
Reformation, éd. C. H. Carter, New York, Random House, 1965 ; 325-47.
Everitt, Alan, Suffolk and the Great Rebellion 1640-1660, Ipswich, Suffolk Records Society,
1961.
Fletcher, Anthony J., A County Community in Peace and War Sussex 1600-1660, Londres,
Longman, 1975.
Gardiner, Samuel R. History of the Great Civil War (1886), Londres, Windrush Press 1987.
***
Gaunt, Peter (éd.), The English Civil War: The Essential Readings. Oxford, Blackwell, 2000.
Gregg, Pauline, Charles Ier. Paris, Fayard, 1984.
Guizot, François, Histoire de la révolution d’Angleterre, 1625-60, éd. Laurent Theis, Paris,
Robert Laffont, « Bouquin », 1997.
Hill, Christopher, « La Révolution anglaise du XVIIe siècle ». Revue historique 221 (1959) ;
5-32. ***
---. A Century of Revolution, 1603-1714, Londres, Routledge, 1991. (nouvelle éd.)
---. Liberty against the Law, Londres, Penguin Books, 1997.
Hirst, Derek, Authority and Conflict: England 1603-1658, Londres, E. Arnold, 1986.
---. England in Conflict, 1603-1660: Kingdom, Community, Commonwealth, New York,
Arnold, 1999.
Hughes, Anne, Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire 1620-1660. Cambridge,
Cambridge UP, 1987.
---. The Causes of the English Civil War, Londres, Macmillan, 1991.
NEW: Jendrysik, Mark. Explaining the English Revolution: Hobbes and His Contemporaries. Lanham, Md : Lexington Books, 2007.
Lessay, Franck, “Penser la Révolution anglaise”, Commentaire 47 (Automne 1989) 583591. ***
Lessay, Franck, « John Milton et la liberté de publier », « Thomas Hobbes : droit
naturel et légitimité de l’autorité », « Edmund Burke : libéralisme et contre-révolution »,
« John Stuart Mill, la liberté et l’altruisme » : présentation et commentaire de quatre
textes dans « Les textes fondamentaux du libéralisme », Le Point, Hors-série n° 12,
janvier-février 2007, pp. 16-17, 18-19, 38-39, 56-57. ***
NEW: Loewenstein, David, Stevens, Paul, eds., Early Modern Nationalism and Milton’s
England. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, NYP (11 septembre 2008) ***
Kennedy, D. E., The English Revolution, 1642-1649, Londres, Palgrave, “British History in
Perspective”, 2000.
Kenyon, John P., The Civil Wars of England, Londres, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989.
Kishlansky, Mark, A Nation Transformed: Britain 1603-1714, Londres, A. Lane, 1997.
Lindley, Keith (éd.), The English Civil War and Revolution: A Sourcebook, Londres,
Routeldge, 1998. ***
Lockyer, Roger, The Early Stuarts: A political History of England, Londres, Longman, 1989.
Lutaud, Olivier, Cromwell, les niveleurs et la république, Paris : Aubier, 1978.
---. Les deux révolutions d’Angleterre. Documents politiques, sociaux, religieux, Paris,
Aubier-Montaigne, 1978.
Manning, Brian, 1649: The Crisis of the English Revolution, London, Bookmarks, 1992.
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Masson, David, The Life of John Milton, Narrated in Connexion with the Historical,
Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time, 7 vol., Macmillan & Co., Cambridge,
London, 1859-94. Vol. 3 : 1643-1649. Web ***
(http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/etext04/7mlt310.htm)
Mayfield, Noel H., Puritans and Regicides: Presbyterian-Independent Differences over the
Trial and Execution of Charles (I) Stuart, Lanham (Md) / New York, University Press of
America, 1988. ***
Morrill, John, Revolt in the provinces: the people of England and the tragedies of war, 16301648. (1980) 2e ed., Londres, Longman, 1999.
Pennington, D., Thomas, K. (éd.), Puritans and Revolutionaries, Londres, Oxord UP, 1961.
Pocock, J. G. A., The Machiavellian Moment. Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic
Republican Tradition. (1975) Paperback. 2nd. Ed. Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University
Press, 2003 ; voir notamment 333-422.
Poussou, Jean-Pierre, Cromwell, la révolution d’Angleterre et la guerre civile, Paris, PUF,
coll. « Que Sais-Je », 1993.
Richardson, Roger C., The Debate on the English Revolution Revisited, Londres, Routledge,
1988.
Richardson, Roger C., Ridden, Geoffrey (éd.). Freedom and the English Revolution. Essays in
History and Literature, Manchester, Manchester UP, 1986.
Roots, Ivan, The Great Rebellion, 1642-1660, Londres, Batsford, 1966.
Russell, Conrad, The Causes of the English Civil War, New York, Oxford UP, 1990 ; repr.
1995.
---. (éd.), The Origins of the English Civil War, Londres, Macmillan, 1987.
Scott, Jonathan, England’s Troubles. Seventeeth-Century English Political Instability in
European Context. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2000.
Seel, Graham, The English Wars and Republic 1637-1660. Londres, Routledge, 1999.
Sharpe, Kevin, The personal rule of Charles I, New Haven (CT), Yale UP, 1992.
Skerpan, Elizabeth, The Rhetoric of Politics in the English Revolution, 1642-1660, Columbia,
University of Missouri Press, 1992.
Smith, David, Constitutional Royalism and the Search for Settlement, c. 1640-1649.
Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1994.
Smith, Nigel, Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660. New Haven and London :
Yale University Press, 1994. ***
Stone, Lawrence, The Causes of the English Revolution, 1529-1642. (1972). Londres,
Routledge, 2001. Trad. Française. Paris, Flammarion, 1974.
---. “The Bourgeois Revolution of Seventeenth-Century England Revisited,” Past & Present
109 (1985).
Tuttle, Elisabeth, Religion et idéologie dans la révolution anglaise, Paris, L’Harmattan, 1989.
***
NEW: Tyacke, Nicolas, ed. The English Revolution c. 1590-1720: Politics, Religion and
Communities. Manchester : Manchester UP, 2008. ***
Underdown, David, Somerset in the Civil War and Interregnum, Newton Abbot, David &
Charles, 1973.
---. Pride’s Purge. Politics in the Puritan revolution, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971.
---. A Freeborn People. Politics and the Nation in Seventeenth-Century England, Oxford,
Clarendon, 1996.
Walzer, Michael, La révolution des saints, Paris, Belin, 1987. ***
Wedgewood, C. V., The Trial of Charles I, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1983.
Woolrych, Austin, Britain in Revolution, 1625-60, Oxford, Oxford UP, 2002. *** (bien que
volumineux : 814 p. !)
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NEW: Worden, Blair. Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton,
Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham. New York: Oxford University Press, (3 février)
2008. Voir les chapitres 2, 7-14, 16.
---. The Rump Parliament 1648-53. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1974.
Zagorin, Perez. A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution. (1954) Londres,
Thoemmes, 1997.
NEW : Zarka, Yves Charles (dir.), Monarchie et République aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles,
P.U.F., Collection : Fondements de la politique, 2008. ***
Voir notamment pp. 13-30 (Bernard Bourdin. « Le traité des libres monarchies de Jacques VI
d’Ecosse : la monarchie au service de la république ») ; pp. 31-46 (Yves Charles Zarka,
« John Milton : la république contre la monarchie ») ; pp. 47-72 (Franck Lessay, « Hobbes
et l’idée de république ») ; pp. 73-102 (Pierre Lurbe. « La conception de la république dans
« Oceana » de James Harrington ») ; pp. 127-168 (Ian Harris. « « Rien qu’un serviteur
éminent de l’Etat » : la royauté et le corps politique pendant la guerre civile anglaise ».
IV – Sur le puritanisme
Barker, Arthur E. Milton and the Puritan Dilemma 1640-60, Toronto and Buffalo, U. of
Toronto Press, 1942. ***
Hill, Christopher. Milton and the English Revolution (Londres, Faber and Faber, 1971) ***
---. Puritanism And Revolution, Londres, Secker & Warburg, 1958. ***
---. Society And Puritanism In Pre-Revolutionary England, New York, Schocken Books,
1964; repr. 2003)
---. Intellectual Origins of The English Revolution, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965.
---. The Century of Revolution, New York, Norton, 1966.
---. The World Turned Upside Down, Londres, Maurice Temple Smith, 1971. Trad. Le monde
à l’envers, Paris, Payot, 1977. ***
---. The Experience of Defeat: Milton and some Contemporaries, Harmondsworth, Penguin,
1985.
Keeble, Neil. “Milton and Puritanism,” dans Thomas Corns (éd.), A Companion to Milton.
Londres, Blackwell, 2001 ; 124-140. ***
New, John F. Anglicans and Puritans. The Basis of their Opposition, Stanford, Stanford UP,
1964.
Trevor-Roper, Hugh. Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans: Seventeenth Century Essays,
Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Tuttle, Elisabeth. Religion et idéologie dans la Révolution anglaise, 1647-49 : Salut du peuple
et pouvoir des saints, Paris, L’Harmattan, 1989. ***
Wolfe, Don M. Milton in the Puritan Revolution, New York, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1941.
Chernaik, Warren, “Civil Liberty in Milton, the Levellers, and Winstanley”, in : Andrew
Bradstock (ed.), Winstanley and the Diggers, 1649-1999, Londres / Portland, Frank Cass,
2001. ***
Sur les niveleurs :
Aylmer, G. E. (éd.). The Levellers in the English Revolution, Ithaca, New York, Cornell
University Press, 1975.
Brailsford, Henry N. The Levellers and the English Revolution, éd. Christopher Hill,
Nottingham, Spokesman Books, 1976.
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Lutaud, Olivier. Cromwell, les Niveleurs et la république, Paris, Aubier-Montaigne, 1967,
rééd. 1978.
Sharp, Andrew. The English Levellers. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, coll. “Cambridge Texts in
the History of Political Thought”, 1998.
Sur les bêcheurs :
Borot, Luc. « Niveleurs et Bêcheux dans la Révolution puritaine : une vision populaire de
l’identité nationale au XVIIe sicle », in : De l’Europe : Identités et Identité, mémoires et
mémoire, éd. C.-O. Carbonell, Toulouse, Presses de l’Université des Sciences sociales de
Toulouse, 1996 ; 65-78.
V. – Sur la liberté
NEW
Berlin, Isaiah. Two Concepts of Liberty. An Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University
of Oxford on 31 October 1958 (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1958) ; 58 p. Texte reproduit dans
Isaiah Berlin, Éloge de la liberté, trad. de l’anglais par Jacqueline Carnaud et Jacqueline
Lahana, Paris : Calmann-Lévy, 1988. ***
VI. – Sur le républicanisme
NEW
Dagger, Richard. Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican. New York, Oxford:
Oxford UP, 1997)
Fink, Zera. The Classical Republicans: An Essay in the Recovery of a Pattern of Thought in
Seventeenth-Century England (1945), second edition. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University
Press, 1962. ***
Nadeau, Christian, Weinstock, Daniel. Republicanism: History, Theory and Practice. Frank
Cass / Taylor & Francis, London / Portland, 2004.
Pettit, Philip. Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government, Oxford, Oxford
University Press, [1997], 2e éd. 1999. ***
Rahe, Paul A. “The Classical Republicanism of John Milton”, History of Political Thought,
Vol 25, no 2 (2004), 243-275. ***
---. Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory Under the English Republic.
Cambridge : Cambridge UP, (14 avril) 2008.
Modern republicanism – distinguished from its classical counterpart by its commercial character
and jealous distrust of those in power, by its use of representative institutions, and by its
employment of a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances – owes an immense
debt to the republican experiment conducted in England between 1649, when Charles I was
executed, and 1660, when Charles II was crowned. Though abortive, this experiment left a legacy
in the political science articulated both by its champions, John Milton, Marchamont Nehdham, and
James Harrington, and by its sometime opponent and ultimate supporter Thomas Hobbes. This
volume examines these four thinkers, situates them with regard to the novel species of
republicanism first championed more than a century before by Niccolo Machiavelli, and examines
the debt that he and they owed the Epicurean tradition in philosophy and the political science
crafted by the Arab philosophers Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes.
Scott, Jonathan. Commonwealth Principles. Republican Writing of the English
Revolution, Cambridge, 2004, especially chapter 2, 41-62. ***
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Skinner, Quentin. Hobbes and Republican Liberty. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008.
***
---. Liberty before Liberalism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ***
Sullivan, Vickie B. Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in
England. Cambridge: CUP, 2004.
Viroli, Maurizio. Republicanism, New York, Hill and Wang, 2002.
Worden, Blair. “Republicanism, Regicide and Republic: The English Experience” in Martin
van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner, eds, Republicansm. A Shared European Heritage. 2 vols,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, 307-327. ***
VII - Critique : étude des œuvres au programme
Tournu, Christophe. Un penseur républicain à l’époque de la première révolution
anglaise : John Milton, Areopagitica (1644), The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
(1649). Paris : CNED / Armand Colin, 2008. *** (à recommander aux étudiants)
---. Théologie et politique dans les œuvres en prose de John Milton. Villeneuve d’Ascq,
Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, coll. « Racines & Modèles », 2000 ; 488 p. ***
Voir, en particulier : 2e partie, Chapitre 2, « la liberté de la presse » (207-60) ; 4e partie, « Le
gouvernement de l’Etat », 325-423. A recommander aux étudiants.
Lejosne, Roger. La Raison dans l'Œuvre de John Milton, Paris, Didier-Erudition, 1981 ; 544
p. *** Cet ouvrage s’appuie beaucoup sur le De doctrina christiana, traité de théologie découvert seulement en
1823 dans les Archives de Whitehall et attribué par Milton. En 1991, une polémique naissait, avec William B.
Hunter, contestant la paternité de l’ouvrage. Cette polémique a été close lors du dernier Symposium international
Milton à Grenoble (2005) : les Miltoniens spécialistes de la question concluent qu’il est probable que Milton a
écrit DDC, mais qu’il n’est pas possible d’en avoir l’absolue certitude.
Pour connaître les plus récentes orientations de la recherché miltonienne, voir Tournu,
Christophe, and Forsyth, Neil (éd.). Milton, Rights and Liberties. Bern, Peter Lang, 2007. –
notamment l’article de Danièle Frison sur TKM. ***
(1) Sur Areopagitica :
Blum, Abbe. “The Author’s Authority: Areopagitica and the Labour of Licensing”, in : ReMembering Milton: Essays on the Texts and Traditions, edited by Mary Nyquist and Margaret
W. Ferguson, New York, Methuen, 1987, 74-96.
Dobranski, Stephen. “Letter and Spirit in Milton’s Areopagitica”, in Stephen B. Dobranski,
Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1999.
Dzelzainis, Martin. “John Milton’s Areopagitica” *** (sur les notions de liberté)
{http://eprints.rhul.ac.uk/archive/00000198/01/john_milton,_areopagitica.pdf}
Evans, John (1969). ‘Imagery as Argument in Milton’s Areopagitica’, Texas Studies in
Language and Literature 8 (1966) : 189-215 ***
Fish, Stanley, “Driving from the Letter: Truth and Indeterminacy in Milton’s Areopagitica”,
in : Re-Membering Milton: Essays on the Texts and Traditions, edited by Mary Nyquist and
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Margaret W. Ferguson, New York, Methuen, 1987, 234-54. Cet article est reproduit, avec
quelques modifications, dans Stanley Fish, How Milton Works, Cambridge, MA, and London,
England, The Belknap Press, 2001 ; 187-214. ***
---. ‘There’s no such thing as free speech, and it’s a good thing too’, in Stanley Fish, There’s
No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It’s a Good Thing, Too. Oxford, Oxford UP, 1994 ; 102119. ***
Fulton, Thomas, “Areopagitica and the Roots of Liberal Epistemology,” English Literary
Renaissance 34(1) (2004), 42–82. ***
Gertz-Robinson, Genelle C., “Still Martyred after All These Years: Generational Suffering in
Milton's Areopagitica”, ELH 70 (4), Winter 2003, 963-987. **
Hoxby, Blair, Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton. New Haven
(CT), Yale UP, 2002. ***
Kolbrener, William, “’Plainly Partial’: The Liberal Areopagitica,” ELH, Vol. 60, No. 1
(Spring 1993): 57-78. ***
NEW: Leonard, John. “Areopagitica and Free Speech,” IN: Herman, Peter C. (ed. and
preface); Approaches to Teaching Milton's Shorter Poetry and Prose. New York, NY:
Modern Language Association of America, 2007; pp. 211-17.
Lessay, Franck, « John Milton et la liberté de publier », Le Point, Hors-série n° 12,
janvier-février 2007, pp. 16-17. ***
Loewenstein, David, “Areopagitica and the Dynamics of History”, Studies in English
Literature, 1500-1900, vol. 28 (1), 1988, 77-93.
Lutaud, Olivier, Milton, Pour la Liberté de la presse sans autorisation ni censure, Paris,
Aubier, 1969 ; 15-121. ***
Nelson, Eric, ‘“True Liberty”: Isocrates and Milton’s Areopagitica’, Milton Studies 40
(2001): 201-21. **
Norbrook, David, “Areopagitica , censorship, and the early modern public sphere”, in : Burt,
Richard, ed., The Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the
Public Sphere (Minneapolis and London, 1994; Cultural Politics, 7), 3-33.
Patterson, Annabel. Censorship and Interpretation: The Conditions of Writing and Reading in
Early Modern England, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. **
---. “That Old Man Eloquent”, Literary Milton: Text, Pretext, Context, ed. Diana Benet and
Michael Lieb. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1994: 22-44. **
Raymond, Joad, “Milton and the Book Trade”. In A History of the Book in Britain, vol. 4 :
1557-1695, ed. John Barnard and D. F. McKenzie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2002 ; 376-87.
---. “The Literature of Controversy”, in A Companion to Milton, ed. Thomas N. Corns.
Oxford, Basil Blackwell Publishers, 2001; 191-210
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Rovira, James, “Gathering the Scattered Body of Milton's Areopagitica”, Renascence 57
(2005): 87-102. *** (Sur Questia)
Siebert, Fredrick Seaton, Freedom of the Press in England 1476-1776, Urbana, University of
Illinois Press, 1952. **
Smith, Nigel, “Areopagitica: Voicing Contexts, 1643-45”, in : Politics, Poetics, and
Hermeneutics in Milton's Prose, edited by David Loewenstein and James Grantham Turner,
Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1990, xiv, 85-101. ***
Tournu, Christophe, « Un Bon Livre, le Livre, les livres : L'Areopagitica de John Milton: De
la liberté de la presse à la presse de la liberté. » Bulletin de la Société d'Etudes AngloAméricaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles, (48), 1999 June, 41-54. ***
Wilding, Michael, “Milton’s Areopagitica: Liberty for the Sects”, Prose Studies: History,
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---. (b) « Faut-il lire le Paradis perdu de Milton comme un traité théologico-politique
républicain? » Cercles 16.2 (2006) ; 43-62. *
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républicaine, 2002. ***
---. (d) “John Milton, the English Revolution (1640-60), and the Dynamics of the French
Revolution.” Prose Studies 24, n°3 (2001) ; 18-38. **
---. (e) « Du droit au divorce au droit des peuples : la logique politique miltonienne » Etudes
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Trevor-Roper, Londres, Duckworth, 1981, 182-200.
A noter que The Ninth International Milton Symposium se tiendra à Londres du 7 au 11 juillet
2008. Tous les détails & inscription en ligne sur le site web de l’Université de Londres :
http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2008/Milton/index.htm
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Je reste naturellement à votre disposition pour de plus amples renseignements.
N’hésitez pas à me faire part de vos commentaires / suggestions. J’y répondrai !
Bien cordialement,
Christophe Tournu ([email protected])
Lundi 7 juillet
11h00-12h30 - Séance plénière 1:
Professor Stanley Fish (Florida International): The New
Milton Criticism ***
Professor Ann Hughes (Keele University): Milton,
Manhood, and Radicalism in the English Revolution
***
14h00-15h30 - Ateliers (Parallel Panels/short papers -- 20
minutes each) :
Milton and Religion: Sylvia Brown, David Gay, Ian
Bickford
16h00-17h30 - Ateliers (Parallel Panels/short papers -- 20
minutes each) :
Milton in his 17th-Century Context: Warren Chernaik,
Stella Revard, William Kolbrener ***
OU
Milton on Liberty: Brooke Conti, Jerome Day, Antonella
Piazza
Mardi 8 juillet
9h00-10h30 - Ateliers (Parallel Panels/short papers -- 20
minutes each) :
Milton and Orthodoxy: Catherine Gimelli Martin,
Abraham Stoll, Martin Dzelzainis ***
11h00-12h30 - Séance plénière 2 :
Professor Nicholas von Maltzahn (Ottawa):
Provincializing Milton
Dr Ian Archer (Keble College, Oxford): Milton's London
14h00-15h30 - Ateliers (Parallel Panels/short papers -- 20
minutes each) :
Liberty and Restraint: Karen Edwards, Lana Cable,
William Shullenberger
16h00-17h30 - Ateliers (Parallel Panels/short papers -- 20
minutes each) :
Thomason Tracts: Steven Zwicker, Michael Braddick,
Jason Peacey
OU
Milton and Belief: Marshall Grossman, Andrew
McCarthy, Gregory Chaplin
OU
Milton and the Language of Politics: Hugh Adlington,
Hannah Crawforth, Thomas Fulton ***
OU
Milton and Populism: Richard Serjeantson, Anne
McLaren and Paul Hammond ***
OU
Milton as Polemicist: Walter Lim, Scott Howard,
Christopher D'Addario
11h00-12h30 – Séance plénière 3 :
Professor Achsah Guibbory (Barnard): Milton, England ,
and Israel ***
Professor Regina Schwartz (Northwestern): Milton and
Idolatry ***
Jeudi 10 juillet
9h00-10h30 - Ateliers (Parallel Panels/short papers -- 20
minutes each) :
Milton's Politics of Divorce: Christophe Tournu, Olivier
Abel, Sandra Laugier ***
OU
Milton and Religion: Charlotte Clutterbuck, Mike
Streeter, Byung-Eun Lee
OU
Milton and Republicanism: Rachel Foxley, Marion
Campbell, Antti Tahvanainen ***
11.00-12h30 – Séance plénière 4 :
Professor Quentin Skinner (Christ's College, Cambridge):
John Milton as a Theorist of Liberty ***
Professor Laura Knoppers (Penn State): “No fear lest
dinner cool”: Milton 's Housewives and the Politics of
Eden
14h00-15h30 - Ateliers (Parallel Panels/short papers -- 20
minutes each) :
Milton and the War of Ideas: Ceri Sullivan, Gregory
Semenza, Susanne Woods
OU
Milton as Polemicist: Nick McDowell, Bill Walker,
Christopher Hamel ***
OU
Perspectives on Milton's Religion: Russell Hillier,
Samuel Smith, Feisal Mohamed
16h00-17h30: - Ateliers (Parallel Panels/short papers -- 20
minutes each) :
Milton as Polemicist: Sara van den Berg, Joseph Teller,
Ben Faber
Vendredi 11 juillet
Mercredi 9 juillet
9h00-10h30 - Ateliers (Parallel Panels/short papers -- 20
minutes each) :
Milton and Religion: John Coffey, Eliott Visconsi, Carlos
Martinez
9h00-10h30 - Ateliers (Parallel Panels/short papers -- 20
minutes each) :
Milton and Orthodoxy: Catherine Gimelli Martin,
Abraham Stoll, Feisal Mohamed
OU
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Milton and Religious Thought: Pitt Harding, Peter
Titlestad, Rebecca Buckham
OU
Milton and the War of Ideas: Kenneth Graham, Jaroslaw
Pluciennik, Stephen M. Fallon
OU
Milton and Nationalism: Michael Donnelly, Eric Song,
Paul Tonks ***
11h00-12h30 – Séance plénière 5 :
Geoffrey Hill, Reading from A Treatise of Civil Power
and other poems
Professor John Rumrich (Texas), Milton's Reception
History
14h00-15h30
Roundtable Discussion: "Milton at 400: Why Milton
Matters Now" ***
Chair: Professor Martin Dzelzainis
Sharon Achinstein (St Edmund Hall, Oxford), Tom Corns
(University of Wales, Bangor), David Loewenstein
(University of Wisconsin-Madison), Nigel Smith (Princeton
University)