About Lynne Greenberg

Lynne Greenberg, the author of The Body Broken, is an associate professor of English at Hunter College. Her academic writing focuses on seventeenth-century British literature. She has a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and a Ph.D. from the City University of New York’s Graduate School and University Center.

BOOKS:
The Body Broken (Random House, March 24 2009).

Editor, Legal Treatises, 3 vols., in The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works (Aldershot, England: Ashgate
Publishing Co., 2005) (includes an introduction to the legal history of Englishwomen (1550-1750) and bibliography of legal sources).

ARTICLES:
“Law,” in Milton in Context. Ed. Stephen B. Dobranski (Cambridge UP, 2011).

“‘Cursd and Devised Proprieties’: Traherne and the Laws of Property,” in Re-reading Thomas Traherne: A Collection of New Critical Essays. Ed. Jacob Blevins (U of Maryland P, 2007).

“Comus and the Problems of Gender,” in Approaches to Teaching Milton’s Shorter Poetry and Prose. Ed. Peter C. Herman (Modern Language Association, 2007).

“Paradise Lost and The Enclosure of the Feme Covert,” in Milton and the Grounds of Contention. Ed. John Shawcross (Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 2003).

“‘a peal of words’: Criminal Speech in Samson Agonistes,” in Reassembling Truths: Twenty-first-Century Milton. Eds. Charles W. Durham and Kristin P. McColgan (Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna UP, 2003).

“Dalila’s ‘feminine assaults’: The Gendering and Engendering of Crime in  Samson Agonistes,” in Altering Eyes: New Perspectives on Milton’s Samson
Agonistes. Eds. Joseph A. Wittreich and Mark R. Kelley (Newark, DE: U of Delaware P, 2002).

“A Preliminary Study of Informed Consent and Free Will in the Garden of Eden: John Milton’s Social Contract,” in Living Texts: Interpreting Milton. Eds. Kristin P. McColgan and Charles W. Durham (Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna UP, 2000).

Co-author, Kathryn L. Barrett, “‘A Monstrous Thing’: The Law of Obscenity.” (U of Florida School of Public Policy, 1993).

“The Art of Appropriation: Puppies, Piracy, and Post-Modernism.” (Cardozo Journal of Law and Entertainment, Summer 1992) (First Prize Winner of the Nathan Burkan Copyright Competition for best essay on copyright law (1990)).