| Global Milton and Visual Art Contributor(s): Duran, Angelica (Editor), Murgia, Mario (Editor), Wittreich, Joseph (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1793617066 ISBN-13: 9781793617064 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $130.68 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 17th Century - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6" W x 9" (1.64 lbs) 432 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Global Milton and Visual Art showcases the aesthetic appropriation and reinterpretation of the works and legend of the early modern English poet and politician John Milton in diverse eras, regions, and media: book illustrations, cinema, digital reworkings, monuments, painting, sculpture, shieldry, and stained glass. It innovates an inclusive approach to Milton's literary art, especially his masterpiece Paradise Lost, in global contemporary aesthetics via intertextual and interdisciplinary relations. The fifteen purposefully-brief chapters, 103 illustrations, and 64 supplemental web-images reflect the great richness of the topics and the diverse experiences and expertise of the contributors. Part I: Panoramas, provides overviews and key contexts; Part II: Cameos offers different perspectives of the varied afterlives of the most widely-circulating illustrations of Paradise Lost, those by Gustave Dor ; Part III: Textual Close-ups focuses on a rich variety of book illustrations, from centuries-old elite engravings to a twenty-first century graphic novel; and Part IV: A Prospect beyond Books, explores visual media outside of books that manifest powerful connections, direct and indirect, with Milton's works and legend. |