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Mis à jour : 7 octobre 2008
Agrégation externe d'anglais - Session 2009
Chers collègues, chers agrégatifs,
La Société d'Etudes Miltoniennes est heureuse de vous proposer des pistes de réflexion pour la question "Milton" au programme de l'Agrégation externe d'anglais - Session 2009.
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Christophe Tournu
Oral I - Épreuves à option.
Le programme des options A et B est constitué par le programme des épreuves d’admissibilité auquel s’ajoute, pour chaque candidat, le programme ci-dessous correspondant à l’option A ou B qu’il a choisie au moment de l’inscription :
B - Civilisation : Un penseur républicain à l’époque de la première révolution anglaise : John Milton, Areopagitica : A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England (1644), The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649). Edition recommandée : John Milton, The Major Works, éd. Stephen Orgel et Jonathan Goldberg, Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press, Oxford World’s Classics paperback, 2003.
Quentin Skinner's lecture on 'John Milton as a Theorist of Liberty' is now available as an audio podcast at: http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400/skinner.htm.
1. Online texts and notes
2. General presentation (updated 6 June 2008)
3. Bibliography (updated 6 June 2008)
4. Analysis of Milton's Areopagitica and The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
5. Other essays on Milton
6. The First English Revolution
7. Political ideas
1. Online texts and notes
1. 1. Areopagitica
The Milton Reading Room (Thomas Luxon et al., Dartmouth University) - Annotated edition
Full text at Bartleby.com, in 2 parts : Part 1, Part 2. From the Harvard Classics edition, 1909-14.
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Areopagitica, by John Milton - Text only
The Library of Economics and Liberty - Text only.
See also: Renascence edition
Areopagitica (Cambridge : Cambridge UP, 1907), at Questia.
1. 2. The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
The Milton Reading Room (Thomas Luxon et al., Dartmouth University) - Annotated edition (1650)
Full text, with introduction and notes by William Talbot Allison (.txt document) New York: Holt,1911.
1. 3. Paperback editions
Areopagitica: Easyread Ciomfort edition (available at Amazon.fr)
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, ed. WWW.Readhowyouwant.com (available at Amazon.fr)
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2. General presentation
Click HERE to read the PDF document (in French, updated 6 June 2008) - 2007 presentation available HERE
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3. Bibliography
Click HERE to read the PDF document (updated 7 October 2008) - 2007 bibliography available HERE
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4. Analysis: web documents
4. 1. On Areopagitica
The occasions for Milton's Areopagitica: The Licensing Order (14 June 1643), Tne Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
See also British History Online
Michael Bryson (California State University, Northridge), The Structure of Milton's Areopagitica
Vincent Blasi (Columbia Law School), Milton's Areopagitica and the Modern First Amendment [to the US Constitution].
Martin Dzelzainis (Royal Holloway, University of London), John Milton's Areopagitica? In: A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake. Blackwell companions to literature and culture. Blackwell, Oxford, 2002; 151-158.
Slide lecture, by Prof. William Warner (University of California at Santa Barbara).
"John Milton delivered his famous address Areopagitica to the English Parliament in 1644 on the subject of book censorship. It has often been quoted for its strong defense of freedom of the press and of speech. Stanley Fish, former English Professor and Dept. Chair at Duke University, former Provost at the U of Illinois (Chicago Circle), and currently Professor of Law at Florida International University, wrote a much admired study of Milton, entitled How Milton Works, Harvard Univ. Press, in 2001. Fish is a post-modernist whose interpretation of Milton's Areopagitica is different, and not surprisingly, post-modernist, compared to more conventional interpretations. Here are some excerpts from Milton's Areopagitica and a summary of Fish's interpretation of what Milton was up to in this famous address." (OrCon Law)
John E. Alvis (University of Dallas, TX), "The Liberty to Know, to Utter, and to Argue", Religion & Liberty, July and August 2000, vol. 10 (4). Source: Acton Institute.
Gary Kamiya (Salon.com), "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue", part 1, part 2. In "Areopagitica," Milton made a magisterial case not just for freedom of speech, but for freedom of soul.
Eric Brown, "In Defense of Bad Books: Milton's Areopagitica." Summary of a lecture by Eric Brown. University of Maine at Farmington, October 19, 2005.Top of the page
4. 2. On The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
Michael Bryson (California State University, Northridge), The Structure of Milton's Tenure of Kings and Magistrates.
---., Background for Milton's Regicide Tracts.
ANGLO-AUSTRALASIAN LAWYERS' ASSOCIATION LONDON - GREAT HALL, GRAYS INN
FRIDAY 22 JANUARY 1999
THE TRIAL OF KING CHARLES I - DEFINING MOMENT FOR OUR CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTIES
The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG
Matthew Jordan, “‘Born to command and not to obey’: Milton and the Political Force of Liberal Humanism”, in: Matthew Jordan, Milton and Modernity, Palgrave-Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK and New York, USA, 2000 ; 15-44.
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5. Other essays on Milton
5. 1. Milton and Liberty / Freedom
W. Scott Howard (University of Denver, Co), Milton’s ‘Divorcive’ Liberties: Ecclesiastical, Domestic or Private, Civil and Cosmological, Early Modern Literary Studies 10.1 (May, 2004) 5.1-12 <URL: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/10-1/howamilt.htm
5. 2. Short biographies
#1 (notable biographies), #2 (Gale - Thomson Group), #3 (Colorado College)
Chateaubriand's chapter on Milton in his Essai sur le littérature angloise (1834).
5. 3. Chronologies
A John Milton Chronology, by Roy Flannagan (University of South Carolina at Beaufort)
A chronology of Milton Life and Works, by Henry S. Turner (University of Wisconsin-Madison) PDF document
Historical and Literary Chronology (1625-58, 1658-1660)
5. 4. Studies in Milton's Republicanism
Martin Dzelzainis (Royal Holloway, University of London), Anti-monarchism in English Republicanism
5. 5. Studies in Milton's Liberalism
Jacques Marseille, Aux sources du libéralisme, les apôtres du progrès humain (HS Le Point, 03/2007)
5. 6. Miscelleanous
Extracts from The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (from the Norton Anthology of English Literature)
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6. The First English Revolution
6. 1. Historical Facts
The English Civil War (summary)
Timelines: The First Civil War (1640-46) ***
and The Second Civil War (1647-49) *** Click on date or hyperlinked word for more details.
Pride's Purge (6 December 1648)
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6. 2. Primary sources
The Petition of Right (1628)
The Grand Remonstrance (1 December 1641) Introductory paragraph and full text.
The XIX Propositions (1 June 1642) and The King's Answer (1642)
The Solemn League and Covenant (25 September 1643) - Introductory note.
Herbert Palmer, Scripture and Reason Pleaded for Defensive Armes (1643)
Samuel Rutherford, Lex, Rex, or The Law and the Prince; A dispute for The Just Prerogative of King and People. (1644)
The Heads of the Proposals offered by the Army (1 August 1647)
The Putney Debates (28 October-1 November 1647)
The Agreement of the People (constitutional manifesto issued by the Levellers): summary of the 3 versions of the Agreement and link to full texts.
Leveller Petition (11 September 1648)
A Digger Pamphlet: Anon, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, or A Discovery of the main ground, original Cause of all the Slavery in the world, but cheifly in England: presented by way of a Declaration of many of the welaffected in that County, to all their poore oppessed Country men of England, &c. (1648)
Petition of February 26, 1649: England's New Chains Discovered, Or The serious apprehensions of a part of the People, on behalf of the Commonwealth; (being Presenters, Promoters, and Approvers of the Large Petition of September 11. 1648.)King Charles Speech at his Trial
Contemporary accounts of the trial *** (The Norton Anthology of English Literature)
The Charges against King Charles (20 January 1649)
The Death Warrant (29 January 1949)
KING CHARLS, HIS SPEECH Made upon the SCAFFOLD At Whitehall-Gate Immediately before his execution On Tuesday the 30 of Jan. 1648 [1649] With a relation of the maner of
His going to Execution.
An Act abolishing the [sic] Kingship
An Agreement Of The Free People of England. Tendered as a Peace-Offering to this distressed Nation. By Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburne, Master William Walwyn, Master Thomas Prince, and Master Richard Overton, Prisoners in the Tower of London, May the 1. 1649.
Gerrard Winstanley, The True Levellers Standard Advanced: Or, The State of Community Opened, and Presented to the Sons of Men. (1649)
Samuel R. Gardiner, Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660. 3rd ed. revised. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.
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6. 3. Critical essays
Christopher Hill, The English Revolution 1640 (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1940). Online edition 2002.
Note on the Independents
Note on the Presbyterians
What was the English Revolution? By John Morrill, Brian Manning and David Underdown
Glenn Burgess, A Matter of Context: 'Radicalism' and the English Revolution, in M. Caricchio, G. Tarantino, eds., Cromohs Virtual Seminars. Recent historiographical trends of the British Studies (17th-18th Centuries), 2006-2007: 1-4.
English Dissenters: 21 groups are described, including the Levellers, the Diggers, and the Ranters.
See also Puritans.
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6. 4. Online courses
J. P. Sommerville (University of Wisconsin): The first crisis of Charles I's reign (1625-29), the personal rule (1629-40), the coming of civil war (1640-42), the first civil war (1642-46), the second civil war (1647-49). *** The latter contains excellent material on the difference between the Presbyterians and the Independents and on the Levellers.
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7. Political Ideas
Social Contract (Dictionary of the History of Ideas, University of Virginia Library)
Tyranny, Natural Law and Secession, a thesis by Geoffrey Allan Plauché (Louisiana State University, Department of Political Science). Look up for Milton, Areopagitica and The Tenure.
Liam J. Atchison (Kansas State University), The English Interpret St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans Chapter Thirteen: From God Save the King to God Help the King 1532-1649, Chapter 5 only, pp. 218-235.
Ethan H. Shagan (Northwestern University), Moderate Liberty in the English Revolution
Quentin Skinner: What is Freedom? The Putney debates, video. Cromwell and others used their definition of the concept to deny the vote to servants.
More about the Putney debates.
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Christophe Tournu, UPMF Grenoble, 2008
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