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Gamle Strynefjellsvegen gehört zu den Norwegischen Landschaftsrouten und wurde bereits 1894 als Verbindung über das Gebirge eröffnet. Ende Mai bleibt die Straße oft noch gesperrt, da Schnee und Eis die Passage erschweren. Einen kurzen Abschnitt erkunde ich zu Fuß.
20.05.2026, #travel #Scandinavia #Norway #Vestlandet #GamleStrynefjellsvegen #road #HistoricRoad #mountain #pass #19thCentury #barrier [4]
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#literature #Victorian #scottish #19thcentury #childrenslit #fantasty @Project Gutenberg @u/litstudies

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RETHINKING GEORGE MACDONALD
Contexts & Contemporaries

16 essays on MacDonald’s place in the Victorian literary scene, his engagement with the works of his contemporaries, & his interest in the social, political, & theological movements of his age—also online via Project MUSE

5/5

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#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thCentury #fantasty #childrenslit

Occasional Papers series no. 17

Edited by Christopher MacLachlan, John Patrick Pazdziora & Ginger Stelle Published in: Paperback By: Scottish Literature International, 2013 Price: £19.95 / €22.95 / USD$25.95 ISBN 978-1-908980-01-4…
Association for Scottish Literature
#literature #Victorian #scottish #19thcentury #childrenslit #fantasty @u/litstudies

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Beautiful Terrors

“The sheer imaginative force of LILITH makes nonsense of our everyday notions of ‘good writing’. MacDonald aims not to make us read, but to make us dream.”

—David Melville on George MacDonald’s last – & very strange – major work of fiction

4/5

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#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thCentury #fantasty

Beautiful Terrors - George MacDonald and ‘Lilith’ - The Bottle Imp

A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. –George MacDonald, ‘The Fantastic Imagination’1 In the 1871 children’s fantasy At the Back of the North Wind, George MacDonald’s boy hero Diamond is asked w…
pookaadmin (The Bottle Imp)
#literature #Victorian #scottish #19thcentury #fantasty @u/litstudies

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Mark Twain & George MacDonald: The Salty & the Sweet

“Both SIR GIBBIE and HUCKLEBERRY FINN explore questions of ethics & truth through the life of an unusually bright & unusually unfortunate boy […] and they have at least twenty plot elements in common.”

—Kathryn Lindskoog explores the connections between the works of George MacDonald & Mark Twain.

3/5

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#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thCentury #fantasty #childrenslit #Twain #MarkTwain

Mark Twain and George MacDonald: The Salty and the Sweet

From The Mark Twain Journal, Volume 30, Number 2 (published August 1994) The unknown connection between two of C. S. Lewis’s favorite books, Sir Gibbie and Huckleberry Finn.
Kathryn Lindskoog (Discovery Institute)
#literature #Victorian #scottish #marktwain #19thcentury #childrenslit #fantasty #Twain @u/litstudies

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“If we think about how women are portrayed in [MacDonald’s] fiction, we can see that women are shown to, repeatedly, rescue men. Men are taught by women, challenged by women, and also challenged to think about women in different ways.”

—An interview with Dr Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson on George MacDonald’s life & work.

2/5

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George MacDonald: a Life of Relationships – Radix Magazine

George MacDonald: a Life of Relationships
Radix (Radix Magazine)
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George MacDonald (1824–1905) was born #OTD, 10 Dec. One of the earliest theorists of the fantastic, & grandfather of modern fantasy literature, he was read & admired by CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien & Madeleine L’Engle, among others

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🎨 : Cecilia Harrison (1863–1941)

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#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thCentury #fantasty #childrenslit #CSLewis #Tolkien

#literature #OTD #Victorian #Tolkien #scottish #19thcentury #cslewis #childrenslit #fantasty @u/litstudies

#scifi #literature #comics #ScienceFiction #Victorian #Frankenstein #scottish #19thcentury

Robert Duncan Milne’s science fiction pioneered themes such as climate catastrophe, cryogenics, biological engineering, personality transfer, scientific terrorism, drone warfare, & more. This 2021 talk by Dundee University’s Centre for Scottish Culture introduces Milne’s life & work

2/5

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#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #scifi #Victorian #19thcentury

Renewal: University of Dundee Culture Day 2021 session 3

The Sixteenth annual University of Dundee Culture Day was held in the Carnegie Lecture Theatre on 29 October 2021, featuring a wide range of stimulating pres...
YouTube
#scifi #literature #ScienceFiction #Victorian #scottish #19thcentury

“[Milne’s] cryogenics story, ‘Ten Thousand Years in Ice’, in which a survivor from an ancient advanced civilisation is revived in the present, unintentionally became one of science fiction’s great literary hoaxes”

Robert Duncan Milne (1844–1899) was born #OTD, 7 June, in Cupar, Fife. He emigrated to the USA & became America’s first full-time writer of science fiction

1/5

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#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #scifi #Victorian #19thcentury

Remembering the lost father of American science fiction – and his Scottish roots

Robert Duncan Milne made HG Wells struggle to keep up.
The Conversation
#scifi #literature #ScienceFiction #OTD #Victorian #scottish #19thcentury

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Mark Twain & George MacDonald: The Salty & the Sweet

“Both SIR GIBBIE and HUCKLEBERRY FINN explore questions of ethics & truth through the life of an unusually bright & unusually unfortunate boy […] and they have at least twenty plot elements in common.”

—Kathryn Lindskoog explores the connections between the works of George MacDonald & Mark Twain.

3/5

discovery.org/a/853/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thCentury #fantasty #childrenslit #MarkTwain

Mark Twain and George MacDonald: The Salty and the Sweet

From The Mark Twain Journal, Volume 30, Number 2 (published August 1994) The unknown connection between two of C. S. Lewis’s favorite books…
Kathryn Lindskoog (Discovery Institute)
#literature #Victorian #scottish #marktwain #19thcentury #childrenslit #fantasty @u/litstudies

@litstudies

George MacDonald: A Life of Relationships

“If we think about how women are portrayed in [MacDonald’s] fiction, we can see that women are shown to, repeatedly, rescue men. Men are taught by women, challenged by women, and also challenged to think about women in different ways.”

—An interview with Dr Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson on George MacDonald’s life & work.

radixmagazine.com/2021/11/09/i…

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thCentury #fantasty #childrenslit

George MacDonald: a Life of Relationships - Radix Magazine

Interview with Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson
Radix (Radix Magazine)
#literature #Victorian #scottish #19thcentury #childrenslit #fantasty @u/litstudies

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George MacDonald (1824–1905) was born #OTD, 10 Dec. One of the earliest theorists of the fantastic, & grandfather of modern fantasy literature, he was read & admired by CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien & Madeleine L’Engle, among others

@litstudies

🎨 : Cecilia Harrison (1863–1941)

🧵 1/5

nationalgalleries.org/art-and-…

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thCentury #fantasty #childrenslit #CSLewis #Tolkien

#literature #OTD #Victorian #Tolkien #scottish #19thcentury #cslewis #childrenslit #fantasty @u/litstudies

#scifi #literature #ScienceFiction #Victorian #scottish #19thcentury @Project Gutenberg

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Originally published in THE ARGONAUT in 1883, Milne’s “A New Palingenesis” is, like #Frankenstein, a secular version of the resurrection myth. Adapted in 2022 in comic-book form, it’s available to download for free from Dundee University

#Scottish #literature #scifi #Victorian #19thcentury #comics

3/5

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A New Palingenesis

Discovery - the University of Dundee Research Portal
#scifi #literature #comics #Victorian #Frankenstein #scottish #19thcentury

Robert Duncan Milne’s #sciencefiction pioneered themes such as climate catastrophe, cryogenics, biological engineering, personality transfer, scientific terrorism, drone warfare, & more. This 2021 talk by Dundee University’s Centre for Scottish Culture introduces Milne’s life & work

#Scottish #literature #scifi #Victorian #19thcentury

2/5
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Renewal: University of Dundee Culture Day 2021 session 3

The Sixteenth annual University of Dundee Culture Day was held in the Carnegie Lecture Theatre on 29 October 2021, featuring a wide range of stimulating pres...
YouTube
#scifi #literature #ScienceFiction #Victorian #scottish #19thcentury

“[Milne’s] cryogenics story, ‘Ten Thousand Years in Ice’, in which a survivor from an ancient advanced civilisation is revived in the present, unintentionally became one of science fiction’s great literary hoaxes”

Robert Duncan Milne (1844–1899) was born #OTD, 7 June, in Cupar, Fife. He emigrated to the USA & became America’s first full-time writer of #sciencefiction

#Scottish #literature #scifi #Victorian #19thcentury

1/5
theconversation.com/rememberin…

Remembering the lost father of American science fiction – and his Scottish roots

Robert Duncan Milne made HG Wells struggle to keep up.
The Conversation
#scifi #literature #ScienceFiction #OTD #Victorian #scottish #19thcentury

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Although Barrie is remembered today almost exclusively for PETER PAN, he was a prominent 19th-century novelist & the most successful British playwright of the early 20th century.

GATEWAY TO THE MODERN, edited by Valentina Bold & Andrew Nash, explores Barrie’s multifarious career
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#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #ChildrensLiterature #19thcentury #20thCentury #drama #cinema #Victorian #Edwardian
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Occasional Papers series no. 18 – Association for Scottish Literature

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#literature #Drama #cinema #Victorian #scottish #19thcentury #20thcentury #peterpan #Edwardian #childrensLiterature

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“I was struck by just how fun, playful and jesting Barrie was. And while I knew they developed a friendship, I didn’t realise just how much the friendship with Stevenson meant to Barrie”

—A Friendship in Letters: Michael Shaw brings together correspondence between two of Scotland’s most famous writers
6/9
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #letters
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A Friendship in Letters - Books from Scotland

'I was struck by just how fun, playful and jesting Barrie was. And while I knew they developed a friendship, I didn’t realise just how much the friendship with Stevenson meant to Barrie.'
Vikki Reilly (Books from Scotland)
#literature #scottish #letters #19thcentury #robertlouisstevenson #jmbarrie

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