| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (260 pages : illustrations) |
| Note |
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 |
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. |
| Language |
English. |
| Access |
Concurrent user level: 1 user |
| Subject |
Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Influence -- Congresses.
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Popular culture -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 |
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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Popular culture. |
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Culture -- Study and teaching. |
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Literature, Modern. |
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Literature -- Philosophy. |
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Motion pictures and television. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Knoppers, Laura Lunger, editor. Editor. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
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Semenza, Gregory M. Colón, 1972- editor. Editor. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
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| Other Form: |
1349533645 |
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1403972370 |
| ISBN |
1281369802 |
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9781281369802 |
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9786611369804 |
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6611369805 |
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1403983186 |
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9781403983183 |
| Standard No. |
10.1057/9781403983183. |
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