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Christian Fantasy

From 1200 to the Present

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  • © 1992

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Authors:
  1. Colin Manlove

    1. University of Edinburgh, UK

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 1-11

  3. The French Queste del Saint Graal

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 12-20

  4. Dante: The Commedia

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 21-41

  5. The Middle English Pearl

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 42-49

  6. Spenser: The Faerie Queene, Book I

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 50-72

  7. Marlowe: Dr Faustus

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 73-92

  8. The Metaphysical Poets

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 93-101

  9. Milton: Paradise Lost

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 102-114

  10. Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 115-130

  11. Swedenborg: Heaven and Hell

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 131-143

  12. Blake: ‘The Little Black Boy’ and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 144-155

  13. Modern Christian Fantasy

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 156-163

  14. George MacDonald’s Fairy Tales

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 164-182

  15. Charles Kingsley: The Water-Babies

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 183-208

  16. Twentieth-Century Christian Fantasy

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 209-214

  17. Charles Williams

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 215-236

  18. C. S. Lewis

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 237-261

  19. Other Writers

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 262-302

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 303-356
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This is the first account of invented stories involving the Christian supernatural. In their development a central concern is found to be the fantasy-making human imagination itself, at first seen as a obstacle to Christian purpose, but more recently given freer rein.

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  • University of Edinburgh, UK

    Colin Manlove

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