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CORNS, THOMAS

Thomas Corns is a Professor at the School of English, Bangor University. He has published widely in both anthologies and journals, including Modern Language Review, Eighteenth-Century Life, Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies, Literary and Linguistic Computing, Prose Studies, Milton Quarterly, Proceedings of the British Academy and Milton Studies. His edited title Blackwell Companion  to Milton (Blackwell, 2001) was winner of the Irene Samuel Prize of the Milton Society of America. Thomas is the author of numerous seminal texts, most recently The Milton Encyclopedia (Yale University Press, 2009). He is a Founding Fellow of the English Association.

Selected Publications:
The Development of Milton’s Prose Style (Clarendon Press, 1982)
Milton’s Language, Blackwell’s Language Library (Blackwell, 1990)
Uncloistered Virtue: English Political Literature, 1640-1660 (Clarendon Press, 1992)
Regaining Paradise Lost (Longman, 1994)
John Milton: The Prose Works (Twayne, 1998)
A History of Seventeenth-Century English Literature (Blackwell, 2006)
The Milton Encyclopedia (Yale University Press, 2009)
Religion, Culture and National Community in the 1670s (co-editor) (University of Wales Press, 2011)

Contributed to:
Politics, Poetics, and Hermeneutics in Milton’s Prose (contributor) (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
Literature and the English Civil War (contributor) (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell (editor) (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
Milton and Republicanism (contributor) (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
History, Language, and the Politics of English Renaissance Prose (contributor) (MRTS, 1997)
Milton and Heresy (contributor) (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
The Royal Image: Representations of Charles I (editor) (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge technology in the first age of print (contributor) (Routledge, 2000)
The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution (contributor) (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Blackwell  Companion  to Milton (editor) (Blackwell, 2001)
Milton and the Terms of Liberty (contributor) (D. S. Brewer, 2002)
John Bunyan: Reading Dissenting Writing (contributor) (Peter Lang, 2002)
The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature (contributor) (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
A Companion to Stuart Britain (contributor) (Blackwell, 2003)
Running Wild: Essays, Fictions and Memoirs Presented to Michael Wilding (contributor) (Manohar, 2004)
Literature and Heresy in Early Modern English Culture (contributor) (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
John Milton and the Manuscript of De Doctrina Christiana (co-writer) (Clarendon, 2007)
Milton and Toleration (contributor) (Oxford University Press, 2007)
John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought (co-writer) (Oxford University Press, 2008)
The Royal Image: Representations of Charles I (editor) (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley (co-editor) (Oxford University Press, 2009)