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Saving the monsters? Images of redemption in the gothic tales of George MacDonald.

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From: Christianity and Literature
Date: 20060101
Author:McLaren, Scott

George MacDonald is known to most readers for his children's stories; to a smaller number for his Christian mythopoeia, Phantastes and Lilith; to a smaller number still for his novels, sermons, and poetry. But few are aware of his several contributions to Victorian gothic fiction and, while studies have been undertaken that deal with gothic and chthonic aspects of Phantastes and Lilith, no treatment of MacDonald as a gothic writer in his own right has yet emerged. (1)

In part this is probably because critics and scholars have had difficulty defining the boundaries of the ...

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