Haunted childhoods in George MacDonald / / John Patrick Pazdziora.
George MacDonald is generally remembered as a benevolent preacher who wrote fairy-tales books for children. Closer reading, however, reveals one of the most startlingly inventive, slyly subversive Scottish writers of the nineteenth century. His writings for children emerged from his own long struggl...
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| Superior document: | SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature ; 29 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill Rodopi,, [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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| Summary: | George MacDonald is generally remembered as a benevolent preacher who wrote fairy-tales books for children. Closer reading, however, reveals one of the most startlingly inventive, slyly subversive Scottish writers of the nineteenth century. His writings for children emerged from his own long struggle with faith and doubt in the face of multiple bereavements, chronic illness, and the persistent threat of early death. Haunted Childhoods in George MacDonald reconsiders death and divine love in MacDonald’s writings for children. It examines his private letters and public sermons, obscure early writings, and most beloved stories. Setting his work alongside texts by James Hogg and Andrew Lang, it argues MacDonald appropriated traditional Scottish-folk narratives to help child readers apprehend his mystically-inclined understanding of mortality. |
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| ISBN: | 9004420614 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | John Patrick Pazdziora. |