Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate
Abstract
This essay discusses queer Milton scholarship’s various responses to C. S. Lewis’s A Preface to Paradise Lost, beginning with Gregory Bredbeck’s groundbreaking 1991 PMLA article through the 2018 volume Queer Milton and beyond. Although most of these responses portray Lewis as one whose explicit denial of queer angelic behavior in Paradise Lost has served to prevent queer readings of Milton, Lewis can also been seen as one who, by this explicit denial, indirectly brought about queer Milton studies. Attention will be paid to Drew Daniel’s unexpected 2014 portrayal of Lewis’s offering an especially daring queer vision of Paradise Lost, a portrayal that is erased when Daniel’s 2014 essay is revised for the 2018 Queer Milton.
First Page
99
Last Page
112
DOI
DOI: 10.25623/conn030-urban-2
Publication Date
2021
Recommended Citation
Urban, David V., "C. S. Lewis’s Complex Relationship with Queer Milton Studies: Indirect Inspiration, Hegemonic Antagonist, and Erased Inconvenient Forerunner" (2021). University Faculty Publications and Creative Works. 626.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/calvin_facultypubs/626