Noël Kimiko Sugimura

Noël Sugimura’s current research focuses on John Milton and eighteenth-century literature and culture. It explores how, on the one hand, early eighteenth-century English readers of Milton sought to contain the dangerous radicalism to which Milton’s poetry tends, and how, on the other, their response to the aesthetics of the poetry inadvertently proved destructive to the clerical conservatism that their readings otherwise promoted.