Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Steven Barfield ,  Katharine Cox
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780786440306

ISBN 10:   0786440309
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   13 October 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

Table of Contents

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      Bibliography      About the Contributors      Index     

Reviews

adds new material on the theatrical productions and gives a British perspective on a contemporary masterpiece of British literature. --<i>Children's Literature Association Quarterly</i>.

adds new material on the theatrical productions and gives a British perspective on a contemporary masterpiece of British literature. --Children's Literature Association Quarterly.

Author Information

Steven Barfield is joint editor of Critical Engagements, the journal of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies, and a member of the editorial board for the on-line journal, Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London. Katharine Cox is a Professor in English at Bournemouth University where she is head of the Department of Humanities and Law.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions