George MacDonald is remembered as one of the founding fathers of modern fantasy. Although he wrote many different kinds of books, including realistic novels, poetry, sermons, and literary criticism, h...
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Although George MacDonald began his literary career as a poet and considered poetry to be the highest literary calling, he made his mark in Victorian literature as a novelist and fantasist. In his own...
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During the mid-to late-Victorian period, George MacDonald was a public personality and a well-known literary figure. Leading critical journals printed long articles on his work; in 1869 the London Qua...
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Any study that seeks to trace the influences of English and European romanticism in "mythopoeic" fantasy must turn to the works of the Scottish author George MacDonald. He was a contemporary of Lewis ...
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In the following essay, Wolff discusses the events in MacDonald's life that led up to his writing of Lilith.
“This River has been a Terror to many, yea the thoughts of it also have of...
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In the following essay, Hein examines MacDonald's theological beliefs as they are expressed in Lilith.
“There is no joy belonging to human nature, as God made it, that shall not be en...
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In the following essay, Schaafsma includes MacDonald's fiction in a discussion of the role of the archetypical Lilith character in fantasy literature.
In The Great Mother, Erich Neumann asse...
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Teaching Lilith
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Lilith Lesson Plans contain 123 pages of teaching material, including:
Dear Annie: A year ago, I had a party for my husband and invited his family and friends, including his 22-year-old niece, "Jan." At the end of the evening, I discovered money mis...
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For those of us who care about Martha Graham, it’s been a bumpy ride.
I got on board in 1958, the year of Graham’s full-evening dance-drama Clytemnestra, the first work of hers I ever s...
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As Suzanne Vega and her husband listened to Bob Dylan's "Modern Times" disc recently, her 13-year-old daughter popped her head into the living room. She wondered why she'd been hearing the same voi...
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You don’t even know what happened. One morning, after a wonderful night of high-grade passion and high-viscosity intimacy at her place, probably over an omelet and under a bright sun, you sai...
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Forget the autumnal equinox. Fall begins on Oct. 1 with the Across the Narrows music festival, or (as I like to call it) Death to the Siren Music Festival. Headlined by Beck, the Pixies, the Killer...
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Seven new prime-time television series premiere the week of Monday, Sept. 17 (all times Eastern):___"K-Ville"What: A pair of New Orleans cops try to restore order to a city and their own lives.Wher...
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Admit it! Countless of you baby-mad Manhattan women have already TiVo’d Inconceivable, that show about a high-end fertility clinic (is there any other kind?) which premieres Sept. 23 on NBC.
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Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am, her genius as a performer will have to be taken o...
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The jabbering, meandering and ossified movie that Robert Altman has made from Garrison Keillor’s lumbering, affected and pointless audio curiosity A Prairie Home Companion is not a movie at a...
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George MacDonald
George MacDonald
Critical Essay by Robert Lee Wolff
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