Thomas Corns, MA, DPhil, FRHistS, FEA

Name:

Professor Thomas Corns

Position:

Head of School

Email:

els009@bangor.ac.uk

Location:

207 New Arts

Phone:

+44 (0)1248 382213

A selected list of key and / or recent publications:

Books

The Development of Milton's Prose Style (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982).

Milton's Language, Blackwell's Language Library (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990).

Uncloistered Virtue: English Political Literature, 1640-1660, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992).

(ed.) The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Regaining Paradise Lost (London and New York: Longman, 1994).

John Milton: The Prose Works (New York: Twayne, 1998).

(ed.) The Royal Image: Representations of Charles I, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999; paperback 2009).

(ed.) Blackwell Companion to Milton, a collection of new essays by several hands, edited with essays on Milton's English and on his Nativity Ode (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001). Winner of the Irene Samuel Prize of the Milton Society of America.
WINNER OF THE IRENE SAMUEL PRIZE OF THE MILTON SOCIETY OF AMERICA FOR THE BEST COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL ESSAYS PUBLISHED IN 2001.
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A History of Seventeenth-Century English Literature (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006).
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(with Gordon Campbell, John Hale and Fiona Tweedie) John Milton and the Manuscript of De Doctrina Christiana (Oxford: Clarendon, 2007).
WINNER OF THE JAMES HOLLY HANDFORD PRIZE OF THE MILTON SOCIETY OF AMERICA FOR THE BEST BOOK ON MILTON PUBLISHED IN 2007.

(with Gordon Campbell) John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
WINNER OF THE JAMES HOLLY HANDFORD PRIZE OF THE MILTON SOCIETY OF AMERICA FOR THE BEST BOOK ON MILTON PUBLISHED IN 2008.
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(with Ann Hughes and David Loewenstein) The Complete Works of Gerard Winstanley, two volumes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
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(with Tony Claydon) Religion, Culture, and National Community in the 1670s (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2011); edited collection with an introduction by the editors.

The Milton Encyclopedia (New Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming 2012); editor and major contributor (c. 400 articles)

Contributions to books

“Milton's Observations upon the Articles of Peace: Ireland under English Eye”, in D. Loewenstein and J. Turner (eds.), Politics, Poetics, and Hermeneutics in Milton's Prose (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 123-34.

“The Plurality of Miltonic Ideology”," in T. Healy and J. Sawday (eds.), Literature and the English Civil War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 110-26.

“Milton and the characteristics of a free commonwealth”, in Quentin Skinner, David Armitage and Armand Himy (eds.), Milton and Republicanism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 25-42

“Bunyan's Grace Abounding and the Dynamics of Restoration Nonconformity”, in Neil Rhodes (ed.), History, Language, and the Politics of English Renaissance Prose (Tempe, Arizona: MRTS, 1997)' pp. 259-70.

“Milton's antiprelatical tracts and the marginality of doctrine”, in Stephen B. Dobranski and John P. Rumrich (eds.), Milton and Heresy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 39-48.

“The Early Modern Search Engine: Indices, Title Pages, Marginalia and Contents”, in Neil Rhodes and Jonathan Sawday (eds.), The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge technology in the first age of print (London and New York: Routledge, 2000), pp. 95-105.

“Radical Pamphleteering”, in N. H. Keeble (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp.71-86.

“Milton before ‘Lycidas’”, in Graham Parry and Joad Raymond (eds.), Milton and the Terms of Liberty (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2002), pp. 23-36.

“Bunyan, Milton and the Diversity of Radical Protestant Writing”. in N. H. Keeble (ed.), John Bunyan: Reading Dissenting Writing (Bern: Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 21-38.

“Literature and London”, in David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller, The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 544-564.

“Literature and History”, in Barry Coward (ed.), A Companion to Stuart Britain (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 166-86.

“Milton and Class”, in David Brooks and Brian Kiernan (eds.), Running Wild: Essays, Fictions and Memoirs Presented to Michael Wilding (Sydney: Manohar, 2004), pp. 55-68.

“The road to George Hill: the heretical dynamic of Winstanley’s early prose,” in David Loewenstein and John Marshall (eds.), Literature and Heresy in Early Modern English Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 185-202.
WINNER OF THE IRENE SAMUEL PRIZE OF THE MILTON SOCIETY OF AMERICA FOR THE BEST COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL ESSAYS PUBLISHED IN 2006.
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“John Milton, Roger Williams, and the Limits of Toleration”, in Sharon Achinstein and Elizabeth Sauer (eds.), Milton and Toleration (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 72-85
WINNER OF THE IRENE SAMUEL PRIZE OF THE MILTON SOCIETY OF AMERICA FOR THE BEST COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL ESSAYS PUBLISHED IN 2007.
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“Milton and the Limitations of Englishness”, in David Loewenstein and Paul Stevens (eds.), Early Modern Nationalism and Milton’s England (Toronto: Univrsity of Toronto Press, 2008), pp. 205-16.
WINNER OF THE IRENE SAMUEL PRIZE OF THE MILTON SOCIETY OF AMERICA FOR THE BEST COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL ESSAYS PUBLISHED IN 2008.
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Articles

“Milton's Quest for Respectability”, Modern Language Review, 77 (1982), 769-79.  (with W. A. Speck and J. A. Downie) “Archetypal Mystification: Polemic and Reality in English Political Literature, 1640-1750”, Eighteenth-Century Life, 7 (1982), 1-27.

“Publication and Politics, 1640-1661: An SPSS-based Account of the Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts”, Literary and Linguistic Computing, 1 (1986),

“‘No Man’s Copy’: The Critical Problem of Fox’s Journal”, Prose Studies, 17.3 (1994). 99-111.

(with John Hale, Gordon Campbell, Fiona Tweedie and David Holmes) “The Provenance of Christian Doctrine, attributed to Milton”, Milton Quarterly, 31 (1997), 67-118.

“The Poetry of the Caroline Court”, the 1997 British Academy Warton Lecture on English Poetry, Proceedings of the BritishAcademy, 97 (1998), 51-73.

“‘With Unaltered Brow’: Milton and the Son of God”, Milton Studies, 42 (2002), 106-121.

Other information

Foundation Fellow, the English Association (elected 1999)

Fellow, the Royal Historical Society (elected 2000)

Honorary Life Member, the Association for Literary and Linguisitic Computing (elected 1994)Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America (2003)

Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America (2003)

Patron, The Friends of Milton’s Cottage (2006)

Honorary Secretary, the Standing Committee of the International Milton Symposium, 1995- .

(With Gordon Campbell) General Editor, The Complete Works of John Milton (2008-2013)