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Fantasy, Art and Life
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Fantasy, Art and Life

Essays on George MacDonald, Robert Louis Stevenson and Other Fantasy Writers
By: William Gray

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William Gray’s Fantasy, Art and Life examines how life is affirmed and enhanced through fantasy literature. Focusing on George MacDonald and Robert Louis Stevenson, it explores how their Scottish backgrounds shaped their engagement with "The Fantastic Imagination."

In part a sequel to his earlier Death and Fantasy, William Gray’s Fantasy, Art and Life: Essays on George MacDonald, Robert Louis Stevenson and Other…
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In part a sequel to his earlier Death and Fantasy, William Gray’s Fantasy, Art and Life: Essays on George MacDonald, Robert Louis Stevenson and Other Fantasy Writers examines the ways in which “Life” in its various senses is affirmed, explored and enhanced through the work of the creative imagination, especially in fantasy literature. The discussion includes a range of fantasy writers, but focuses chiefly on two writers of the Victorian period, George MacDonald and Robert Louis Stevenson, whose Scottish (and particularly Calvinist) backgrounds deeply affected their engagement with what MacDonald called “The Fantastic Imagination.”

William Gray is Professor of Literary History and Hermeneutics, and Director of the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy, at the University of Chichester, UK. He studied literature, philosophy and theology at the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh and Princeton. His publications include C.S. Lewis (Northcote, 1998), Robert Louis Stevenson: A Literary Life (Palgrave, 2004), Fantasy, Myth and the Measure of Truth: Tales of Pullman, Lewis, Tolkien, MacDonald and Hoffmann (Palgrave, 2008) and Death and Fantasy: Essays on Philip Pullman, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald and R.L. Stevenson (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-4438-2899-8
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-2899-4
  • Date of Publication: 2011-06-14

Paperback

  • ISBN: 1-4438-3385-1
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-3385-1
  • Date of Publication: 2011-10-03

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-4438-3050-X
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-3050-8
  • Date of Publication: 2011-10-03
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Subject Codes:

  • BIC: DSBF, DSK, FM
  • BISAC: LIT004260, LIT004120, LIT024040, LIT025040, LIT022000, LIT006000
  • THEMA: DSBF, DSK, FM
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