[Milton-L] Good Books on Satan

[Michael Bryson]

  The Satan/Vader analogy is interesting to me (I was
  13 the year I first met Milton's Satan and Darth
  Vader, so the two have been with me for a while).
  I'm not sure I'd push the analogy very far, however.
  Vader works for the Evil Galactic Emperor, while
  Satan works for...hmm...maybe I would push the
  analogy.

  But that's just me. (And Vader may want Leia dead,
  but that's her problem. Neither Vader nor Satan
  wants me dead. It would be bad for the whole
  fictional character business, after all--I mean,
  once word leaks out that you are killing off your
  audience, people stop watching/reading you and it's
  nothing but work, work, work all the time).

  Michael Bryson (slightly punchy from the
  holidays...)

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    Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:09:40 -0600 (CST)
    From: Jameela Lares <Jameela.Lares at usm.edu>
    Subject: RE: [Milton-L] Good Books on Satan
    To: John Milton Discussion List
    <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>

    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
    118 College Drive, #5037
    Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001
    601 266-6214 ofc
    601 266-5757 fax

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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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