Haunted childhoods in George MacDonald /

"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 s...

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Main Author: Pazdziora, John Patrick (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2020]
Series:Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 29.
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520 |a "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"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction : 'The harvest of the grave' -- 'Is there a fairy-country, brother?' : letters from Arund -- 'Any other child is like me' : sickness at Hunt -- 'A whole churchyard of spectres' : death from within -- 'Death and other painful realities' : the dying child -- 'Questions that can never be answered' : the child alone -- 'I should so like to be myself ' : the stolen child -- Conclusion : 'Now we must wait'. 
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