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Joseph Wittreich
Faculty Profile

jwittreich@gc.cuny.edu or jwittreich@nyc.rr.com | (212) 873-8710 home; (212) 817-8324 office

Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University.
Distinguished Professor, Graduate School. English.

Selected Publications:

  • Shifting Contexts: Reinterpreting "Samson Agonistes" (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2003).

  • Feminist Milton (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987). Pp. xxiii + 173

  • Interpreting "Samson Agonistes" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986). Pp. xxx. + 394. [WINNER OF THE JAMES HOLLY HANFORD AWARD presented by the Milton Society of America, December, 1987]

  • "Image of that Horror": History, Prophecy, and Apocalypse in "King Lear" (San Marino: Huntington Library, 1984). Pp. xiv. + 185. 3 illus.

  • Visionary Poetics: Milton's Tradition and His Legacy (San Marino: Huntington Library, 1979). Pp. xxv + 324. 13 illus.

  • Angel of Apocalypse: Blake's Idea of Milton (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975). Pp. xxiii + 332. 45 illus.

 

 

  

PhD Program in English
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