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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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill Rodopi,
[2020]
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| Series: | Scottish cultural review of language and literature ;
v. 29. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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'.