Written in a colloquial style, this book is designed for the general reader, exploring seventeenth-century cultural history through the lens of Pullman's trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust. It discusses Renaissance language, literature, science, and religion as well as seventeenth-century hieroglyphics and atomic physics.
Written in a colloquial style, this book is designed for the general reader, exploring seventeenth-century cultural history through the lens of Pullman's trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust. It discusses Renaissance language, literature, science, and religion as well as seventeenth-century hieroglyphics and atomic physics.
Kristen Poole is the Ned B. Allen Professor of English at the University of Delaware. She has published extensively on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, religion, and science, with particular focus on Shakespeare and Milton. She also has a keen interest in global history, and is the General Editor of the online platform Routledge Resources Online: The Renaissance World. In addition to holding an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, she has a Master of Sacred Theology degree from United Lutheran Seminary in Philadelphia, and has published a book on ethics and climate change. She lives in Philadelphia.
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Introduction: All This History Around You PART 1. LANGUAGE AND MEANING A Short Introduction: What Is Truth? 1: The Alethiometer I: Allegory and Interpretation 2: The Alethiometer II: Literalism and Universal Language 3: The Language of Pictures: Dæmons and Hieroglyphs PART 2. SCIENCE A Short Introduction: Experiment and the New Science 4: Spyglasses and Other Worlds 5: The Secrets of Alchemy 6: Margaret Cavendish and the Physics of Dust: The Deepest Nature of Things PART 3. Religion A Short Introduction: Pullman and Religion 7: Angels and the War in Heaven 8: Rebelling against Authority: Satan and Asriel 9: Back to the Garden: Eve and Lyra
Introduction: All This History Around You PART 1. LANGUAGE AND MEANING A Short Introduction: What Is Truth? 1: The Alethiometer I: Allegory and Interpretation 2: The Alethiometer II: Literalism and Universal Language 3: The Language of Pictures: Dæmons and Hieroglyphs PART 2. SCIENCE A Short Introduction: Experiment and the New Science 4: Spyglasses and Other Worlds 5: The Secrets of Alchemy 6: Margaret Cavendish and the Physics of Dust: The Deepest Nature of Things PART 3. Religion A Short Introduction: Pullman and Religion 7: Angels and the War in Heaven 8: Rebelling against Authority: Satan and Asriel 9: Back to the Garden: Eve and Lyra
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