The second of three lectures in the Haskell Lecture Series, “Sex, Slavery, and Indigeneity in John Milton’s Paradise Lost”, presented by Professor John Rogers, University of Toronto
John Rogers is Professor of English and Canada Research Chair of Early Modern British Literature and Culture at the University of Toronto. He’s the author of The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the English Revolution, and over 20 essays on topics related to the literature and culture of seventeenth-century England, from Aemilia Lanyer to Isaac Newton. He has also published essays on the impact of Paradise Lost on the theologies of the nineteenth-century American religious movements of Mormonism and Seventh-Day Adventism. Before John left Yale for the University of Toronto, he delivered a series of 24 undergraduate lectures on Milton that were recorded on videotape, and are available on the “Yale Open Courses” website and YouTube. He’s currently completing a book on the effect on Milton’s poetry of his interest in early modern Anti-Trinitarianism.
Open to all members of the public
