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Considered George MacDonald's greatest work, Lilith (1895) is among the most popular and profound fantasy novels of the Victorian era. This collection of critical essays is the first book-length study of this important literary work. The selections function in working dialogue with one another, driven by the central idea of liminality in fantasy literature. In addition to providing fresh interpretations of the novel, these essays implement esteemed background scholarship on Lilith, including that of notable author C.S. Lewis. Analytical topics include MacDonald's rhetorical strategy as a writer of prose romance, the implications of the novel's famous "endless ending," and the significance of Lilith in the development of modern fantasy.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Liminality in Lilith
ROBERT A. COLLINS
2. Liminality and the Everyday in Lilith
TOM SHIPPEY
3. Lilith, Textuality, and the Rhetoric of Romance
MICHAEL MENDELSON
4. Myth, Mysticism, and Magic: Reading at the Close of Lilith
VERLYN FLIEGER
5. The Logic of Fantasy and the Crisis of Closure in Lilith
COLIN MANLOVE
6. The Demoness and the Grail: Deciphering Lilith
JEANNE MURRAY WALKER
7. A Fresh Look at Lilith's Perplexing Dimensions
ROLLAND HEIN
8. Collins Agonistes; or, Why Did I Bother To?
ROGER C. SCHLOBIN
9. The Revelatory Potential of Lilith's Immanent Eternity
LUCAS H. HARRIMAN
10. Frustrated Interpretation in Lilith
JOHN PENNINGTON
11. Liminality as Psychic Stage in Lilith
RODERICK MCGILLIS
12. Cosmic and Psychological Redemption in Lilith
BONNIE GAARDEN
13. Lilith as the Mystic's Magnum Opus
ELIZABETH ROBINSON
14. Chiasmatic Christianity: Lilith's Sense of an Ending
KELLY SEARSMITH
15. The (As Yet) Endless Ending of Lilith
DAVID M. MILLER
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