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.

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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