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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827277703321

Titolo

Milton in popular culture / / edited by Laura Lunger Knoppers and Gregory M. Colon Semenza

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

ISBN

1-281-36980-2

9786611369804

1-4039-8318-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 260 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KnoppersLaura Lunger

SemenzaGregory M. Colon <1972->

Disciplina

821/.4

Soggetti

Popular culture - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.