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Milton in Popular Culture / edited by L. Knoppers, G. Colón Semenza.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Ethnology.
- European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600.
- European literature.
- Communication.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Regional Cultural Studies.
- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
- Media and Communication.
- Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Regional Cultural Studies.
- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
- Media and Communication.
- Cultural Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XI, 260 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2006.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Breathing life into a Milton for the Twenty-first century, this cutting-edge collection shows students and scholars alike how Milton transforms and is transformed by popular literature and polemics, film and television, and other modern media.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I Milton in Fantasy Literature
- 1 Reconstructing Eden: Paradise Lost and C.S. Lewis's Perelandra
- 2 Steven Brust's To Reign in Hell: The Real Story
- 3 "Fighting Since Time Began": Milton and Satan in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
- 4 His Dark Materials, Paradise Lost, and the Common Reader
- 5 Adapting Milton for Children: Margaret Hodges's Comus (1996) and the Tale of Childe Rowland
- Part II Milton in Horror Film
- 6 Popularizing Pandaemonium: Milton and the Horror Film
- 7 Miltonic Loneliness and Monstrous Desire from Paradise Lost to Bride of Frankenstein
- 8 " 'Better to Reign in Hell than Serve in Heaven', Is That It?": Ethics, Apocalypticism, and Allusion in The Devil's Advocate
- Part III Milton in Comedic Film
- 9 "You Seemed to Go Way Back": The Evolution of Adam in The Lady Eve
- 10 Sabrina Fair Goes to the Movies: Milton, Myth, and Romance
- 11 Sabrina . . . Or, the Lady?: Gender, Class, and the Specter of Milton in Sabrina (1995)
- 12 National Lampoon's Animal House and the Fraternity of Milton
- Part IV Milton and Social Justice
- 13 Milton after 9/11
- 14 The Blind Leading the Blind and Sighted: John Milton and Helen Keller
- 15 Malcolm X and African-American Literary Appropriations of Paradise Lost
- Part V Milton in Modern Technologies
- 16 The Environment, the Body, and the Digital Fallen Angel in Simon Biggs's Pandaemonium
- 17 Milton and the Web
- Afterword
- Contributors
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611369804
- 9781281369802
- 1281369802
- 9781403983183
- 1403983186
- OCLC:
- 314889009
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