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Rethinking George MacDonald : Contexts and Contemporaries.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Occasional PapersPublisher: Glasgow : Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (302 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781908980052
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rethinking George MacDonaldDDC classification:
  • 823.8
LOC classification:
  • PR4969 .R47 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Belief and Scepticism -- 1. The Idea of Tradition in George MacDonald -- 2. 'Divine Alchemy': The Miracles of Our Lord in its Context -- 3. 'With all sorts of doubts I am familiar': George MacDonald's Literary Response to John Ruskin's Struggles with Epistemology -- 4. Thomas Wingfold, Curate and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Eugenics Debate -- Part II. Social Reform and Gender -- 5. George MacDonald's Approach to Victorian Social Reform in The Vicar's Daughter -- 6. Military Bodies and Masculinity in 'The Broken Swords' -- 7. God and Gender in Robert Falconer: Deifying the Feminine -- 8. Imagining Reformed Communities: Discussing Social Myths in George MacDonald's Princess Novels and Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market' -- 9. Sitting on the Doorstep: MacDonald's Aesthetic Fantasy Worlds and the Divine Child-Figure -- Part III. Ideals and Nightmares -- 10. Stirring the Senses: Identity and Suspense in George MacDonald's David Elginbrod -- 11. 'La Belle Dame' - Lilith and the Romantic Vampire Tradition -- 12. Gothic Degeneration and Romantic Rebirth in Donal Grant -- 13. George MacDonald and the Visual Arts -- Part IV. Scotland -- 14. Speaking Matrilineally (and Especially of Uncle Mackintosh MacKay) -- 15. How the Fairies were not Invited to Court -- 16. George MacDonald and the Grave Livers of Scotland -- Back Cover.
Summary: George MacDonald is the acknowledged forefather of later fantasy writers such as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. This collection of sixteen essays examines MacDonald's place in the Victorian literary scene, his engagement with his contemporaries and his interest in the social, political, and theological movements of his age.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Belief and Scepticism -- 1. The Idea of Tradition in George MacDonald -- 2. 'Divine Alchemy': The Miracles of Our Lord in its Context -- 3. 'With all sorts of doubts I am familiar': George MacDonald's Literary Response to John Ruskin's Struggles with Epistemology -- 4. Thomas Wingfold, Curate and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Eugenics Debate -- Part II. Social Reform and Gender -- 5. George MacDonald's Approach to Victorian Social Reform in The Vicar's Daughter -- 6. Military Bodies and Masculinity in 'The Broken Swords' -- 7. God and Gender in Robert Falconer: Deifying the Feminine -- 8. Imagining Reformed Communities: Discussing Social Myths in George MacDonald's Princess Novels and Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market' -- 9. Sitting on the Doorstep: MacDonald's Aesthetic Fantasy Worlds and the Divine Child-Figure -- Part III. Ideals and Nightmares -- 10. Stirring the Senses: Identity and Suspense in George MacDonald's David Elginbrod -- 11. 'La Belle Dame' - Lilith and the Romantic Vampire Tradition -- 12. Gothic Degeneration and Romantic Rebirth in Donal Grant -- 13. George MacDonald and the Visual Arts -- Part IV. Scotland -- 14. Speaking Matrilineally (and Especially of Uncle Mackintosh MacKay) -- 15. How the Fairies were not Invited to Court -- 16. George MacDonald and the Grave Livers of Scotland -- Back Cover.

George MacDonald is the acknowledged forefather of later fantasy writers such as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. This collection of sixteen essays examines MacDonald's place in the Victorian literary scene, his engagement with his contemporaries and his interest in the social, political, and theological movements of his age.

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