Digital Milton and student research

David Ainsworth

pp. 207-223

in: David Currell, Islam Issa (eds), Digital Milton, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Abstract

Students confronted by Milton often find themselves intimidated; getting students involved in research can help motivate them to persevere while giving them a chance to contribute to scholarship outside their classrooms. This chapter suggests ways to involve students in digital research to help make the study of Milton and his works more accessible. The Edifice Project designed by Ainsworth may allow students to take ownership of something beyond an end-of-term assessment and create a sense of continuous community across multiple courses. Ainsworth argues that the richness of Milton's poetry and prose makes his work especially fit for student digital research.