[Milton-L] Good Books on Satan

[Jameela Lares]

Jonny,

I suspect that Nancy Rosenfeld's The Human Satan in Seventeenth-Century English Literature (Ashgate, 2008) is worth a look.  It might explain his appeal to someone like me, who sees the figure as bent on our utter distruction and therefore not particularly sympathetic.  When I hear people getting excited about Satan, I always think of Princess Leia saying, "Vadar wants us all dead!"  But chacun à son goût.

Jameela Lares
Professor of English
The U. of So. Mississippi
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>From jonnyangel <junkopardner at comcast.net>
Sent Sat 11/29/2008 5:39 PM
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Subject [Milton-L] Good Books on Satan


Hello list-

I’m looking for some good books on Satan, and would appreciate some recommendations.

Years ago I read a couple by Jeffrey Burton Russell and found them quite interesting, and many of my friends believe him to be the go-to guy old the subject of Ol Scratch (I guess in one I didn’t read he deals with Milton’s Satan for several pages).

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated, but my ‘free’ reading time is very limited these days because I have so much required reading to do for classes so I’m looking only for “the best”.

Thanks all,

Jonathan

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