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Christian Fantasy

From 1200 to the Present

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  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. Modern Christian Fantasy

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 156-163
  13. George MacDonald’s Fairy Tales

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 164-182
  14. Charles Kingsley: The Water-Babies

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 183-208
  15. Twentieth-Century Christian Fantasy

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 209-214
  16. Charles Williams

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 215-236
  17. C. S. Lewis

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 237-261
  18. Other Writers

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 262-302
  19. Back Matter

    Pages 303-356

About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Edinburgh, UK

    Colin Manlove

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