Milton in Popular Culture [Hardcover]

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.Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction; L.L.Knoppers & G.M.Col?n Semenza PART 1: MILTON IN FANTASY LITERATURE Figuring Milton in C. S. Lewis's Fiction; S.Schwartz Steven Brust's To Reign in Hell : The Real Story; D.T.Benet Fighting Since Time Began: Milton and Satan in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials ; S.Burt His Dark Materials , Paradise Lost , and the Common Reader; L.Shohet Adapting Milton for Children: Margaret Hodges' Comus (1996) and the Tale of Childe Rowland ; G.M.Col?n Semenza PART II: MILTON IN HORROR FILM Popularizing Pandaemonium : Milton and the Horror Film; E.Brown Miltonic Loneliness and Monstrous Desire from Paradise Lost to Bride of Frankenstein ; L.L.Knoppers 'Better to Reign in Hell...Is that it?': Ethics, Apocalypticism, and Allusion in The Devil's Advocate ; R.Netzley PART III: MILTON IN COMEDIC FILM You Seemed to Go Way Back: The Evolution of Adam in The Lady Eve ; L.Sternlieb Sabrina Fair Goes to the Movies: Milton, Myth, and Romance; C.G.Martin Sabrina . . . or, the Lady?: Gender, Class, and The Spectre of Milton in Sabrina (1995); J.Kim National Lampoon's Animal House and the Fraternity of Milton; D.Howard PART IV: MILTON AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Milton after 9/11; D.Boocker The Blind Leading the Blind and Sighted: John Milton and Helen Keller; A.Duran Malcolm X and African-American Appropriations of Milton; R.Wilburn PART V: MILTON IN MODERN TECHNOLOGIES The Environment, the Body, and the Digital Fallen Angel in Simon Biggs's Pandaemonium ; B.Lessard Milton and The Web; T.Luxon Afterword; S.FishLAURA LUNGER KNOPPERS is Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University, USA.

GREGORY M. COL?N SEMENZA is Assistant Professor of English at the University of ConnecticlsÂ