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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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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
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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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)
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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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)
“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 RelationshipsRadix (Radix Magazine)
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
🎨 : Cecilia Harrison (1863–1941)
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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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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)
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
Interview with Kirstin Jeffrey JohnsonRadix (Radix Magazine)
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
🎨 : Cecilia Harrison (1863–1941)
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