Kristen Poole (Englis Ned B. Allen Professor of English Literature

Gebundenes Buch

Philip Pullman and the Historical Imagination

Seventeenth-Century Literature, Science, and Religion in ^IHis Dark Materials^R and ^IThe Book of Dust^R

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9780192889317
• ISBN-10: 0192889311
• Artikelnr.: 72108424