Bodily metaphor and moral agency in a Masque: A cognitive approach

Milton Studies

Volumn , Issue 43, 2004, Pages 19-34

  Bradburn, Beth ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (28)

1. On Milton's moral ambivalence, see, for example, Hugh M. Richmond, The Christian Revolutionary: John Milton (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1974)
2. Jean M. Mandler, "How to Build a Baby: II. Conceptual Primitives," Psychological Review 99 (1992): 596
3. Eve E. Sweetser, From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure (Cambridge, 1990), 38, 20
4. See also Michael J. Reddy, "The Conduit Metaphor: A Case of Frame Conflict in Our Language about Language," in Metaphor and Thought, 2d ed., ed. Andrew Ortony (Cambridge, 1993), 164-201
5. For a discussion of this conceptual metaphor from a cognitive perspective, see Mark Turner, The Literary Mind (Oxford, 1996), 52-56
6. John Milton, Areopagitica, in Complete Prose Works of John Milton, 7 vols., ed. Douglas Bush et al. (New Haven, Conn., 1959), 2:505
7. Mary Thomas Crane, Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory (Princeton, 2001), 162
8. Jay L. Halio, "The Metaphor of Conception and Elizabethan Theories of the Imagination," Ncophilologus 50 (1966): 454-61
9. Helkiah Crooke, Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man (London, 1615), 202, 252. Crooke's comprehensive anatomy was reprinted throughout the seventeenth century
10. See John Leonard, "Saying 'No' to Freud: Milton's A Mask and Sexual Assault," MQ 25 (1991): 129-40
11. William Kerrigan, "The Politically Correct Comus: A Reply to John Leonard," MQ 27 (1993): 149-55
12. James Villas, "The Petrarchan Topos Bel Piede: Generative Footsteps," Romance Notes 11 (1969): 167
13. Mary Thomas Crane, "Herrick's Cultural Materialism," George Herbert Journal 14 (1990-1991): 34
14. Carey, Complete Shorter Poems, 232, mentions Apuleis, Boocacio, and Spenser as examples
15. "Falls" has a second, musical sense in this passage as well
16. In Proditionem Bombardicam, 4
17. For a discussion of translation in this epigram and elsewhere in Milton's work, see William Kerrigan, "The Heretical Milton: From Assumption to Mortalism," English Literary Renaissance 5 (1975): 125-66
18. Crooke, Microcosmographia, 645
19. Jean E. Graham, "Virgin Ears: Silence, Deafness, and Chastity in Milton's Maske," in Milton Studies, vol. 36, ed. Albert C. Labriola (Pittsburgh, 1998), 1-17, discusses the gender politics of the Lady's speeches and silences
20. Donald M. Friedman, "Comus and the Truth of the Ear," in The Muses Common-Weale: Poetry and Politics in the Seventeenth Century, ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth (Columbia, Mo., 1988), 119-34, argues that Milton privileges hearing in the masque
21. Marsilio Ficino, De Vita, vol. 2, ed. and trans. Carol V. Kaske and John R. Clark (Binghamton, N.Y., 1989), 225
22. John T. Shawcross, "Two Comments," MQ 7 (1973): 98
23. and Edward Le Comte, Milton and Sex (London, 1978), 1-2
24. Milton, Paradise Lost, ed. Merritt Y. Hughes (Indianapolis, 1962), 4:248
25. A. B. Chambers, Andrew Marvell and Edmund Waller: Seventeenth-Century Praise and Restoration Satire (University Park, Pa., 1991), 23
26. Milton, The Reason of Church Government, in Complete Prose Works, 1:841-42
27. Chambers, Andrew Marvell, 24
28. Shuger, " 'Gums of Glutinous Heat,' " 8