Philip Pullman and the Historical Imagination - Seventeenth-Century Literature, Science, and Religion in His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust

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.