George MacDonald

Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-60258-783-0
Verlag: Baylor University Press

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: The Making of the Christian Imagination

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.

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Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Liturgik, Christliche Anbetung, Sakramente, Rituale, Feiertage

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Gravity of a Child at PlayPart I: Modalities of Levity1 The Levity of Saints and Angels2 Ecstasy and FollyLightening the Self for Its Journey3 Vanity and PlayLiberation from Seriousness for Metamorphosis4 Carnival and SabbathA Time for Renewal, Rebellion, and RevelationPart II: MacDonald's Fairytale Levity5 "Never so Real as When They Are Solemn"Victorians and Seriousness6 TimeFairyland's Festive Sabbath7 SpaceFairyland's Ecstatic Cosmology8 Transformation"Shall not the Possible Become the Real?"Conclusion: The Haunting Force of LevityNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Gabelman is Teacher of English at Eastbourne College in East Sussex, United Kingdom.