The great Victorian Christian author George MacDonald is the
well-spring of the modern fantasy genre. In this book Colin Manlove
offers explorations of MacDonald's eight shorter fairy tales and
his longer stories At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and
the Goblin, The Wise Woman, and The Princess and Curdie. MacDonald
saw the imagination as the source of fairy tales and of divine
truth together. For he believed that God lives in the depths of the
human mind and "sends up from thence wonderful gifts into the light
of the understanding". This makes MacDonald that very rare thing: a
writer of mystical fiction whose work can give us experience of the
divine. Throughout his children's fantasy stories MacDonald is
describing the human and divine imagination. In the shorter tales
he shows how the imagination has different regions and depths, each
able to shift into the other. With the longer stories we see the
imagination in relation to other aspects of the self and to its
position in the world. Here the imagination is portrayed as often
embattled in relation to empiricism, egotism, and greed.
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