MacDonald’s Sources, Influences, Convergences, Comparisons (original) (raw)

Earlier Writers

• P. B. Shelley, death, and imagination
• Chaucer
• Francis Bacon
• Shakespeare on History
• P. B. Shelley
• MacDonald’s Defence of Shelley
• Goethe

Contemporaries

• Phantastes's Literary Relations: An Introduction
• Self-Imprisonment, Pride, and Humility in Dickens and MacDonald
• Thomas Carlyle
• Carlyle’s French Revolution
• Tennyson’s The Princess
• Death in Phantastes and Great Expectations
• Through Various Looking Glasses
• Fantasy Versus Reality in the sroman — Phantastes compared to Great Expectations
• and Dickens's Little Dorrit
• Pip and Anados find themselves misled by beauty
• Curiosity in Phantastes and Alice
• Language and Narcisism in Phantastes and "King of the Golden River"
• MacDonald’s essay on Browning’s “Christmas Eve” (1853)

Later Authors

• The Fantastic Narrator (in Beagle, Lewis, MacDonald, Tolkien, and Wolfe)
• Shadows and Darkness: Learning to Triumph over Human Weakness (in Beagle, MacDonald, Tolkien, and Wolfe)
• Harmony in Nature
• Plot and Epigraphs from Other Texts in George MacDonald's Phantastes
• Reflections in Dunsany, MacDonald, Tolkien, and Others
• MacDonald influences Mary Coleridge (1861-1907)
• Unlikely Heroes and their role in Fantasy Literature

Last modified 27 June 2018