SOURCE: “The Fairy Tales of George MacDonald and the Evolution of a Genre,” in For the Childlike: George MacDonald's Fantasies for Children, The Children's Literature Association and The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1992, pp. 31-49.
In the following essay, Mendelson provides a close reading of three fairy tales that are exemplary of MacDonald's use of the genre.
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