Critical Perspectives on Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials

Introduction
KATHARINE COX      1

I. ADVERSARIES AND INFLUENCES
1. Recasting John Milton’s Paradise Lost: Intertextuality, Storytelling and Music
RACHEL FALCONER      11
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      28
3. Constructions of the Child, Authority and Authorship: The Reception of C.S Lewis and Philip Pullman
ELISABETH ELDRIDGE      40
4. "Dark Materials to Create More Worlds": Considering His Dark Materialsas Science Fiction
STEVEN BARFIELD      57

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      75
6. Revisiting the Colonial: Victorian Orphans and Postcolonial Perspectives
LAURA PETERS      93
7. Exploring and Challenging the Lapsarian World of Young Adult Literature: Femininity, Shame, the Gyptians, andSocial Class
NICOLA ALLEN      111
8. "Imagine Dust with a Capital Letter": Interpreting the Social and Cultural Contexts for Philip Pullman’s Transformation of Dust
KATHARINE COX      126

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      143
10. The Republic of Heaven: East, West and Eclecticism in Pullman’s Religious Vision
J’ANNINE JOBLING      154
11. "Walking into Mortal Sin": Lyra, the Fall, and Sexuality
TOMMY HALSDORF      172
12. Becoming Human: Desire and the Gendered Subject
SARAH GAMBLE      187
13. After the Fall: Queer Heterotopias
SALLY R. MUNT      202

IV. DRAMATIZING HIS DARK MATERIALS
14. Staging the Impossible: Severance and Separation in the National Theatre’s Adaptation
PATRICK DUGGAN      219
15. Staging and Performing His Dark Materials: From the National Theatre Productions to Subsequent Productions
KARIAN SCHUITEMA      239

Bibliography      267
About the Contributors      273
Index      275