Milton in Popular Culture

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Reconstructing Eden: Paradise Lost and C.S. Lewis’s Perelandra

Chapter 3 Steven Brust’s To Reign in Hell : The Real Story

Chapter 4 “Fighting since Time Began”: Milton and Satan in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials

Chapter 5 His Dark Materials, Paradise Lost , and the Common Reader

Chapter 6 Adapting Milton For Children: Margaret Hodges’s Comus (1996) and the Tale of Childe Rowland

Chapter 7 Popularizing Pandaemonium: Milton and the Horror Film

Chapter 8 Miltonic Loneliness and Monstrous Desire from Paradise Lost to Bride of Frankenstein

Chapter 9 “‘Better to Reign in Hell than Serve in Heaven’, Is That It?”: Ethics, Apocalypticism, and Allusion in The Devil’s Advocate

Chapter 10 “You Seemed to Go Way Back”: The Evolution of Adam in The Lady Eve

Chapter 11 Sabrina Fair Goes to the Movies: Milton, Myth, and Romance

Chapter 12 Sabrina … Or, the Lady?: Gender, Class, and the Specter of Milton in Sabrina (1995)

Chapter 13 National Lampoon’s Animal House and the Fraternity of Milton

Chapter 14 Milton after 9/11

Chapter 15 The Blind Leading the Blind and Sighted: John Milton and Helen Keller

Chapter 16 Malcolm X and African-American Literary Appropriations of Paradise Lost

Chapter 17 The Environment, the Body, and the Digital Fallen Angel in Simon Biggs’s Pandaemonium

Chapter 18 Milton and the Web

Chapter 19 Afterword