Title:
Milton in popular culture / edited by Laura Lunger Knoppers and Gregory M. Colón Semenza.
Author:
Knoppers, Laura Lunger.
Semenza, Gregory M. Colón, 1972-
Publication Information:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Call Number:
PR3588 .M5525 2006
Abstract:
"Breathing life into 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."--Publisher's website.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0626/2005056618-t.htmlContributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0626/2005056618-b.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0626/2005056618-d.html
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781403972378
Physical Description:
260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents:
Introduction / Laura Lunger Knoppers and Gregory M. Colón Semenza -- pt. I. Milton in fantasy literature. Reconstructing Eden: Paradise lost and C.S. Lewis's Perelandra / Sanford Schwartz ; Steven Brust's To reign in Hell: the real story / Diana Treviño Benet ; "Fighting since time began": Milton and Satan in Philip Pullman's His dark materials / Stephen Burt ; His dark materials, Paradise lot, and the common reader / Lauren Shohet ; Adapting Milton for children: Margaret Hodges's Comus (1996) and the tale of Childe Rowland / Gregory M. Colón Semenza -- pt. II. Milton in horror film. Popularizing Pandaemonium: Milton and the horror film / Eric C. Brown ; Miltonic loneliness and monstrous desire from Paradise lost to Bride of Frankenstein / Laura Lunger Knoppers ; " 'Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven', is that it?": ethics, apocalypticism, and allusion in The devil's advocate / Ryan Netzley -- pt. III. Milton in comedic film. "You seemed to go way back": the evolution of Adam in The Lady Eve / Lisa Sternlieb ; Sabrina Fair goes to the movies: Milton, myth, and romance / Catherine Gimelli Martin ; Sabrina ... or, the lady?: gender, class, and the specter of Milton in Sabrina / Julie H. Kim ; National Lampoon's Animal house and the fraternity of Milton / Douglas L. Howard -- pt. IV. Milton and social justice. Milton after 9/11 / David Boocker ; The blind leading the blind and sighted: John Milton and Helen Keller / Angelica Duran ; Malcolm X and African-American literacy appropriations of Paradise lost / Reginald A. Wilburn -- pt. V. Milton in modern technologies. The environment, the body, and the digital fallen angel in Simon Biggs's Pandaemonium / Bruno Lessard ; Milton and the web / Thomas H. Luxon -- Afterword / Stanley Fish.
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