Karen EdwardsKaren Edwards is a Professor of English at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research and teaching focus on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, especially the works of John Milton, in the context of natural history, the Bible and rligion, and politics. Her publications include Milton and the Natural World (1999), Reformed Animals: An Early Modern Bestiary (2005-2009) and a forthcoming monograph entitled Political Animals in Early Modern England . Read More Read Less