Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Associate Professor, Baruch College. English
Email: jdisalvo@nyc.rr.com
Phone: (212) 817-8345
Selected Publications:
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War of Titans: Blake's Critique of Milton and the Politics of Religion (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Univ. Press, 1984).
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"Fear of Flying: Milton on the Boundaries of Witchcraft and Inspiration," in Women in the Renaissance, ed. Kirby Farrell, Elizabeth H. Hageman and Arthur F. Kinney (Amherst, Massachusetts, 1988).
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"'intestine Thorn': Samson's Struggle with the Woman Within," Milton and the Idea of Woman, ed. Julia Walker, (Champaign, Illinois, 1988), pp. 211-29.
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"'In narrow circuit strait'n'd by a Foe': Puritans and Indians in Paradise Lost," in Ringing the Bell Backwards: The Proceedings of the First International Milton Symposium, ed. Ronald G. Shafer (Indiana, Pa., 1982).
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"Make War Not Love: On Milton's Samson Agonistes and Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle," Milton Studies, January 1989, 203-231.
Blake, Politics, History. ed. with G.A. Rosso and Christopher Hobson. (NY: Garland P, 1998)
"`Spirituall Contagion': Male Psychology and the Culture of Idolatry in Samson Agonistes. Altering Eyes: New Perspectives on Samson Agonistes, Eds. Mark Kelley and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware: U of Delaware P, forthcoming, 2001).
"Father James Groppi: Portrait of a 1960s Activist," in The Lost World of Italian American Radicalism. Eds. Phillip Canistraro and Gerald Meyer (forthcoming).