<p>George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". The subjects are those of traditional fantasy: good and wicked fairies, children embarking on elaborate quests, and journeys into unsettling dreamworlds. Within this familiar imaginative landscape, his children's stories were profoundly experimental, questioning the association of childhood with purity and innocence, and the need to separate fairy tale wonder from adult scepticism and disbelief.</p>

The Complete Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Knoepflmacher, U. C.

MACDONALD, GEORGE

United States

Penguin Classics

Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity

<p>Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as <i>Through the Looking Glass or Mopsa the Fairy</i> lurks the specter of an intense gender debate about the very nature of childhood. Offering brilliant rereadings of classics from the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" as well as literature commonly considered "grown-up," U. C. Knoepflmacher illuminates this debate, probing deeply into the relations between adults and children, adults and their own childhood selves, and the lives of beloved Victorian authors and their "children's tales." <i>Ventures into Childland</i> will delight and instruct all readers of children's classics, and will be essential reading for students of Victorian culture and gender studies.<br><br>"<i>Ventures into Childland</i> is acute, well written and stimulating. It also has a political purpose, to insist on the importance of protecting and nurturing children, imaginatively and physically."—Jan Marsh, <i>Times Literary Supplement</i><br><br>"A provocative and interesting book about Victorian culture."—<i>Library Journal</i><br></p>

Teen & Young Adult

University of Chicago Press

Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as Through the Looking Glass or Mopsa the Fairy lurks the specter of an intense gender debate about the very nature of childhood. Offering brilliant rereadings of classics from the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" as well as literature commonly considered "grown-up," U. C. Knoepflmacher illuminates this debate, probing deeply into the relations between adults and children, adults and their own childhood selves, and the lives of beloved Victorian authors and their "children's tales." Ventures into Childland will delight and instruct all readers of children's classics, and will be essential reading for students of Victorian culture and gender studies.  "Ventures into Childland is acute, well written and stimulating. It also has a political purpose, to insist on the importance of protecting and nurturing children, imaginatively and physically."—Jan Marsh, Times Literary Supplement  "A provocative and interesting book about Victorian culture."—Library Journal

<p>Knoepflmacher's deep analysis of Victorian fiction, looking for wistfulness, playfulness, joie de vivre and laughter -- as well as the deep angst of despair -- for these are emotions common to man across all cultures, seasons and times.</p>

Laughter and Despair; Readings in Ten Novels of the Victorian Era

History & Criticism

Univ. Of California Pr.

Laughter and Despair: Readings in Ten Novels of the Victorian Era

British & Irish

University of California Press

<p>MARY SHELLEY's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus grew out of a parlor game and a nightmare vision. The story of the book's origin is a famous one, first told in the introduction Mary Shelley wrote for the 1831 edition of the novel. The two Shelleys, Byron, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont, and John William Polidori (Byron's physician) spent a "wet, ungenial summer in the Swiss Alps." Byron suggested that "each write a ghost story." If one is to trust Mary Shelley's account (and James Rieger has shown the untrustworthiness of its chronology and particulars), only she and "poor Polidori" took the contest seriously. The two "illustrious poets," according to her, "annoyed by the platitude of prose, speedily relinquished their uncongenial task." Polidori, too, is made to seem careless, unable to handle his story of a "skull-headed lady." Though Mary Shelley is just as deprecating when she speaks of her own "tiresome unlucky ghost story," she also suggests that its sources went deeper. Her truant muse became active as soon as she fastened on the "idea" of "making only a transcript of the grim terrors of my waking dream": "'I have found it! What terrified me will terrify others."' The twelve essays in this collection attest to the endurance of Mary Shelley's "waking dream." Appropriately, though less romantically, this book also grew out of a playful conversation at a party. When several of the contributors to this book discovered that they were all closet aficionados of Mary Shelley's novel, they decided that a book might be written in which each contributor-contestant might try to account for the persistent hold that Frankenstein continues to exercise on the popular imagination. Within a few months, two films--Warhol's Frankenstein and Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein--and the Hall-Landau and Isherwood-Bachardy television versions of the novel appeared to remind us of our blunted purpose. These manifestations were an auspicious sign and resulted in the book <i>Endurance of Frankenstein</i>.</p>

The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel

Levine, George

Reference

<p><div>This study shows how George Eliot, a leader in the nineteenth-century intellectual world of Darwin and the Industrial Revolution, wrestled in her early novels with the esthetic problems of reconciling her art and her philosophy. Attempting in her fiction to reproduce the real, temporal world she lived in, George Eliot also tried to reassure herself and her readers that their godless modern world still operated according to higher moral laws of justice and perfectibility.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>U. C. Knoepflmacher examines here for the first time in sequence George Eliot's development of increasingly sophisticated forms of fiction in her efforts to reconcile the two conflicting orientations in her thought. We see this popular novelist as she progressed artistically from the flawed "Amos Barton" in 1857 up to the balance she achieved in Silas Marner in 1861. And we discover her in the context of her literary antecedents and surrounding in a way that brings many new affiliations to light, particularly the connection of her novels to the writings of Milton, the Romantic poets, and her contemporaries Arnold and Carlyle.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Professor Knoepflmacher thoroughly discusses each work in George Eliot's first stage, brining new attention to minor works like "The Lifted Veil" and Scenes of Clerical Life and fresh insights to such well known works as Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.</div></p>

George Eliot's Early Novels: The Limits of Realism

<p>Aimed at students of all levels, this series provides a companion to key works of world literature. This volume examines the metaphoric and narrative structures of "Wuthering Heights" in an attempt to show the underlying oppositions on which the book is built.</p>

Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights (Landmarks of World Literature)

Cambridge University Press

Aimed at students of all levels, this series provides a companion to key works of world literature. This volume examines the metaphoric and narrative structures of "Wuthering Heights" in an attempt to show the underlying oppositions on which the book is built.

<p>Contents: I. Religion, evolution, and the novel; 1. 1888 and a look backwards; 2. George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Samuel Butler: three types of search; II. George Eliot: the search for a religious tradition; 1. George Eliot and science; 2. George Eliot and the "higher criticism"; 3. George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, and tradition; III. Middlemarch: the balance of a progress; 1. "Heart" and "mind": two forms of progress; 2. "Modes of religion" (a); 3. Modes of religion" (b); 4. The "metaphysics" of Middlemarch; IV. Daniel Deronda: tradition as synthesis and salvation; 1. Middlemarch and the two "worlds" of Daniel Deronda; 2. Hebraism as nationality; 3. Hebraism as religious belief; V. Walter Pater: the search for a religious atmosphere; 1. Pater's "imaginary portraits"; 2. Pater's "religion of sanity"; VI. The "atmospheres" of Marius the Epicurean; 1. The pilgrimage of Marius (a); 2. The pilgrimage of Marius (b); 3. The Christian death of a pagan; VII. Samuel Butler: the search for a religious crossing; 1. The creation of a faith (1859-1872); 2. The consolidation of a faith (1873-1886); VIII. Reality and Utopia in The way of all flesh; 1. The "past selves" of Ernest Pontifex; 2. The conversion of Ernest Pontifex; 3. The creed of Ernest Pontifex; Appendixes; Index</p>
<p>Originally published in 1965.</p>
<p>The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.</p>

Religious Humanism and the Victorian Novel: George Eliot, Walter Pater and Samuel Butler (Princeton Legacy Library)

Princeton University Press

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The Complete Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics)

Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity

Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity

Laughter and Despair; Readings in Ten Novels of the Victorian Era

Laughter and Despair: Readings in Ten Novels of the Victorian Era

The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel

George Eliot's Early Novels: The Limits of Realism

Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights (Landmarks of World Literature)

Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights (Landmarks of World Literature)

Religious Humanism and the Victorian Novel: George Eliot, Walter Pater and Samuel Butler (Princeton Legacy Library)