Milton in Popular Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Reconstructing Eden: Paradise Lost and C.S. Lewis’s Perelandra ....Pages 23-34
Steven Brust’s To Reign in Hell: The Real Story....Pages 35-45
“Fighting since Time Began”: Milton and Satan in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials ....Pages 47-57
His Dark Materials, Paradise Lost, and the Common Reader....Pages 59-70
Adapting Milton For Children: Margaret Hodges’s Comus (1996) and the Tale of Childe Rowland....Pages 71-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Popularizing Pandaemonium: Milton and the Horror Film....Pages 85-97
Miltonic Loneliness and Monstrous Desire from Paradise Lost to Bride of Frankenstein ....Pages 99-111
“‘Better to Reign in Hell than Serve in Heaven’, Is That It?”: Ethics, Apocalypticism, and Allusion in The Devil’s Advocate ....Pages 113-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
“You Seemed to Go Way Back”: The Evolution of Adam in The Lady Eve ....Pages 127-138
Sabrina Fair Goes to the Movies: Milton, Myth, and Romance....Pages 139-150
Sabrina … Or, the Lady?: Gender, Class, and the Specter of Milton in Sabrina (1995)....Pages 151-162
National Lampoon’s Animal House and the Fraternity of Milton....Pages 163-173
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Milton after 9/11....Pages 177-186
The Blind Leading the Blind and Sighted: John Milton and Helen Keller....Pages 187-198
Malcolm X and African-American Literary Appropriations of Paradise Lost ....Pages 199-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
The Environment, the Body, and the Digital Fallen Angel in Simon Biggs’s Pandaemonium ....Pages 213-223
Milton and the Web....Pages 225-236
Afterword....Pages 237-244
Back Matter....Pages 245-260