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University of Toronto Press, Toronto [Ont.]
Russian notions of good and evil changed before the Revolution and will change again under glasnost' and perestroika. But no literary character has reflected such changes more dramatically than Milton's Satan, who managed to be both a hero to...
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Russian notions of good and evil changed before the Revolution and will change again under glasnost' and perestroika. But no literary character has reflected such changes more dramatically than Milton's Satan, who managed to be both a hero to Romantic poets and Marxist critics
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-254) and index
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Introduction : The Rise of Russian SatanismPart I The Satan of the Enlightenment -- Satan and the First Translation of Paradise Lost -- Introducing Milton's Satan to the Common Reader -- Monks and 'Pocket Poets': Publication -- Masonic Devils and the Light Within -- Satan, Pugachev, and the French Revolution -- Part II Satan as Romantic and Marxist Idol -- The Demonic Tradition from Zhukovsky to Pushkin -- Milton's Satan and Lermontov -- Banning and Reviving Satan -- 1917 and After: The Triumph of Milton's Satan -- Satan as Anti-Imperialist -- Conclusion: Prince of Darkness, Prince of Light -- Appendixes -- I Milton's Interest in Russia -- II An English Oration Concerning Milton's Satan from Lermontov's School -- III A Chronological Distribution Table.
