Christian fantasy : from 1200 to the present
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.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 356 pages ; 24 cm
9780333558904, 9781349125722, 0333558901, 1349125725
26633066
Introduction; the French queste del Saint Graal; Dante - the commedia; the middle English pearl; Spenser - the faerie queene, book 1; Marlow - Dr Faustus; the metaphysical poets; Milton - paradise lost; Bunyan - the pilgrim's progress; Swedenborg - heaven and hell; Blake - the little black boy and the marriage of heaven and hell; modern Christian fantasy; George MacDonald's fairy tales; Charles Kingsley - the water babies; twentieth-century Christian fantasy; Charles Williams; C.S. Lewis; other modern Christian fantasies.