Global Milton and Visual Art

Global Milton and Visual Art showcases the aesthetic appropriation and reinterpretation of Milton’s works and legend in diverse eras, regions, and media. The purposefully-brief chapters, illustrations, and web-images demonstrate key instances of intermedial translation and adaptation, especially of Paradise Lost, in the context of globalization.

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 Doré; 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.

Part I: Panoramas

Chapter 1. An Introduction: Things Visible

Angelica Duran and Mario Murgia

Chapter 2. “More Worlds . . . Other Worlds . . . New Worlds”: Translation / Illustration / Paradise Lost

Joseph Wittreich

Part II: Cameos

Chapter 3. Doré’s Paradise Lost and Ukiyo-e Prints

Hiroko Sano

Chapter 4. Doré’s Illustrations with Cromos in El Paraíso perdido

Angelica Duran

Chapter 5. Paradise Lost in Music Videos

Ana Elena González-Treviño

Part III: Textual Close-ups

Chapter 6. Author Portraits of Milton, Authorship, and Canonization

Nathalie Collé

Chapter 7. “Delectable to Behold”: Milton’s Eve in the Artist’s Gaze

Wendy Furman-Adams

Chapter 8. Gender, Nature, and Desire in Dalí’s Paradise Lost

Joshua Reid

Chapter 9. Paradise Lost as (Hispanic) Graphic Novel

Mario Murgia

Part IV: A Prospect beyond Books

Chapter 10. How Milton’s Rebel Angels Landed in Mexico

Gabriela Villanueva

Chapter 11. The Milton Shield, Paradise Lost, and the 1867 Exposition universelle in Paris

Chia-Yin Huang

Chapter 12. Inscription, Monuments, and the Milton Window at St. Margaret’s, Westminster

Aaron Shapiro

Chapter 13. Portraits of Milton in Stained Glass

Beverley Sherry

Chapter 14. Rebel Angels: Milton, Epstein’s Lucifer, and the Kashmiri Sitter

Islam Issa and Matthew Geary

Chapter 15. Milton’s Satan in Malick’s Song to Song

Jonathan R. Olson