000			04187nam a22004451i 4500
001			BRILL9789004420618
003			nllekb
005			20260610105405.0
007			cr un uuuua
008			200527s2020 ne sb 001 0 eng d
020			_a9789004420618 _q(electronic book)
020			_a9789004420595 _q(print)
024	7		_a10.1163/9789004420618 _2DOI
035			_z(OCoLC)1154124710
040			_aNL-LeKB _cNL-LeKB _erda
050		4	_aPR4969
072		7	_aDSY _2bicssc
072		7	_aLIT _x009000 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a823/.8 _223
100	1		_aPazdziora, John Patrick, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aHaunted Childhoods in George MacDonald / _cby John Patrick Pazdziora.
264		1	_aLeiden; _aBoston : _bBrill | Rodopi, _c2020.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aSCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature ; _v29
490	1		_aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004419087
505	0		_aAcknowledgements -- Introduction: ‘The harvest of the grave’ -- 1 ‘Stranded by night on the low coast of Death’ -- 2 ‘To no system could I subscribe’ -- 3 ‘The essence of religion’ -- 4 ‘Joy of Being’ -- 5 Contents Outline -- 1 ‘Is there a fairy-country, brother?’: Letters from Arundel -- 1 ‘The best thing’ -- 2 ‘Serious difficulties in the church’ -- 3 ‘The aspiring child’ -- 4 ‘Trying to catch the corn-scraich’ -- 5 ‘The theme that most inspired George MacDonald’ -- 2 ‘Any other child is like me’: Sickness at Huntly -- 1 ‘I should not have known her’ -- 2 ‘Childness’ -- 3 ‘Trees are growing coffins’ -- 4 ‘The outward form of birth’ -- 3 ‘A whole churchyard of spectres’: Death from Within -- 1 ‘The Psyche is aloft’ -- 2 ‘I was dead, and right content’ -- 3 ‘The Father of fathers’ -- 4 ‘I brooded over tales of terror’ -- 4 ‘Death and other painful realities’: The Dying Child -- 1‘What he did remember was very hard to tell’ -- 2‘I do not think he was right’ -- 3‘I thought you were dead’ -- 4‘People call me by dreadful names’ -- 5 ‘Questions that can never be answered’: The Child Alone -- 1 ‘The sun, moon, and stars lived there’ -- 2 ‘Jesus is dead’ -- 3 ‘Mountains and valleys’ -- 4 ‘Alone in the strange night’ -- 5 ‘We are all orphans, you and I’ -- 6 ‘I should so like to be myself’: The Stolen Child -- 1 ‘I don’t like the fairies’ -- 2 ‘Hold me fast and fear me not’ -- 3 ‘The right critics of them will be children’ -- Conclusion: ‘Now we must wait’ -- Bibliography -- Index.
520			_aGeorge 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.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aChildren in literature.
650		0	_aDeath in literature.
650		0	_aSpiritual life in literature.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tHaunted Childhoods in George MacDonald, _dLeiden Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2020 _w9789004420595
830		0	_aSCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature ; _v29.
830		0	_aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004419087.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004420618
999			_c34138 _d34138