George MacDonald
Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity
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2023
Baylor University Press (Verlag)
978-1-60258-783-0 (ISBN)
Baylor University Press (Verlag)
978-1-60258-783-0 (ISBN)
The Scottish poet, author, and Christian minister George MacDonald is widely known as an inspiration for the works of C. S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Lewis Carroll. George MacDonald delivers a balanced reading of its subject that ultimately lends a new theological and literary weight to whimsy.
The Scottish poet, author, and Christian minister George MacDonald is widely known as an inspiration for the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Lewis Carroll, among others. Nineteenth century photographs of MacDonald present a forbidding visage, embodying Victorian-era solemnity. Yet behind the facade, as Daniel Gabelman writes, lived a whimsical and fantastical muse. Indeed, MacDonald imbued theological weight through childlike lightheartedness. Gabelman ably reveals in MacDonald's writings a bridge between playfulness and seriousness in the modern imagination. George MacDonald delivers a balanced reading of its subject that ultimately lends a new theological and literary weight to whimsy.
The Scottish poet, author, and Christian minister George MacDonald is widely known as an inspiration for the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Lewis Carroll, among others. Nineteenth century photographs of MacDonald present a forbidding visage, embodying Victorian-era solemnity. Yet behind the facade, as Daniel Gabelman writes, lived a whimsical and fantastical muse. Indeed, MacDonald imbued theological weight through childlike lightheartedness. Gabelman ably reveals in MacDonald's writings a bridge between playfulness and seriousness in the modern imagination. George MacDonald delivers a balanced reading of its subject that ultimately lends a new theological and literary weight to whimsy.
Daniel Gabelman is Teacher of English at Eastbourne College in East Sussex, United Kingdom.
Introduction: The Gravity of a Child at Play
Part I: Modalities of Levity
1 The Levity of Saints and Angels
2 Ecstasy and Folly
Lightening the Self for Its Journey
3 Vanity and Play
Liberation from Seriousness for Metamorphosis
4 Carnival and Sabbath
A Time for Renewal, Rebellion, and Revelation
Part II: MacDonald's Fairytale Levity
5 "Never so Real as When They Are Solemn"
Victorians and Seriousness
6 Time
Fairyland's Festive Sabbath
7 Space
Fairyland's Ecstatic Cosmology
8 Transformation
"Shall not the Possible Become the Real?"
Conclusion: The Haunting Force of Levity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.06.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Making of the Christian Imagination |
| Verlagsort | Waco |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 272 g |
| Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-60258-783-3 / 1602587833 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-60258-783-0 / 9781602587830 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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