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Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials stands as a landmark in fantasy literature. Comprised of the novels The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass, the award-winning epic trilogy has been adapted for radio, stage, and film in both Britain and the United States, though it remains controversial for its negative depiction of religion. Herein, scholars from various literary, philosophical, and theatrical fields explore His Dark Materials, addressing numerous topics relevant to reading, studying and understanding the work, including its basis in Milton's Paradise Lost; the influence of science fiction on the series; issues of social class, religion, sexuality, and gender; postcolonial perspectives; and recent stage productions.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
KATHARINE COX
I. ADVERSARIES AND INFLUENCES
1. Recasting John Milton's Paradise Lost: Intertextuality, Storytelling and Music
RACHEL FALCONER
2. "When I Grow Up I Want to Be...": Conceptualization of the Hero Within the Works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Philip Pullman
PHIL CARDEW
3. Constructions of the Child, Authority and Authorship: The Reception of C.S Lewis and Philip Pullman
ELISABETH ELDRIDGE
4. "Dark Materials to Create More Worlds": Considering His Dark Materialsas Science Fiction
STEVEN BARFIELD
II. TRADITIONS AND LEGACIES
5. Revitalizing the Old Machines of a Neo-Victorian London: Reading the Cultural Transformations of Steampunk and Victoriana
STEVEN BARFIELD and MARTYN COLEBROOK
6. Revisiting the Colonial: Victorian Orphans and Postcolonial Perspectives
LAURA PETERS
7. Exploring and Challenging the Lapsarian World of Young Adult Literature: Femininity, Shame, the Gyptians, andSocial Class
NICOLA ALLEN
8. "Imagine Dust with a Capital Letter": Interpreting the Social and Cultural Contexts for Philip Pullman's Transformation of Dust
KATHARINE COX
III. RELIGION, SEXUALITY AND GENDER
9. The Man Who Walked with God: Phillip Pullman's Metatron, the Biblical Enoch, and the Apocrypha
JOHN HAYDN BAKER
10. The Republic of Heaven: East, West and Eclecticism in Pullman's Religious Vision
J'ANNINE JOBLING
11. "Walking into Mortal Sin": Lyra, the Fall, and Sexuality
TOMMY HALSDORF
12. Becoming Human: Desire and the Gendered Subject
SARAH GAMBLE
13. After the Fall: Queer Heterotopias
SALLY R. MUNT
IV. DRAMATIZING HIS DARK MATERIALS
14. Staging the Impossible: Severance and Separation in the National Theatre's Adaptation
PATRICK DUGGAN
15. Staging and Performing His Dark Materials: From the National Theatre Productions to Subsequent Productions
KARIAN SCHUITEMA
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