"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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1. Verfasser:	Pazdziora, John Patrick (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Leiden ; Boston Brill Rodopi [2020]
Schriftenreihe:	Scottish cultural review of language and literature volume 29
Schlagworte:	MacDonald, George > 1824-1905 Kinderliteratur Tod > Motiv MacDonald, George / 1824-1905 / Criticism and interpretation MacDonald, George / 1824-1905 / Characters / Children MacDonald, George / 1824-1905 / Religion Children in literature Death in literature Spiritual life in literature MacDonald, George / 1824-1905 Criticism, interpretation, etc Hochschulschrift
Zusammenfassung:	"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." Klappentext
Beschreibung:	X, 221 Seiten
ISBN:	9789004420595