Table of Contents

Introduction Part One: Belief and Scepticism 1. The Idea of Tradition in George MacDonald - Stephen Prickett 2. 'Divine Alchemy': The Miracles of Our Lord in its Context - Daniel Gabelman 3. 'With all sorts of doubts I am familiar': George MacDonald's literary response to John Ruskin's struggles with epistemology - Jocie Slepyan 4. Thomas Wingfold, Curate and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Eugenics Debate - Ginger Stelle Part Two: Social Reform and Gender 5. George MacDonald's Approach to Victorian Social Reform in The Vicar's Daughter - Jeffrey W. Smith 6. Military Bodies and Masculinity in 'The Broken Swords' - Jenny Neophytou 7. God and Gender in Robert Falconer: Deifying the Feminine - Philip Hickok 8. Imagining Reformed Communities: Discussing Social Myths in George MacDonald's Princess Novels and Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market' - Christine Chettle 9. Sitting on the Doorstep: MacDonald's Aesthetic Fantasy Worlds and the Divine Child-Figure - Ally Crockford Part Three: Ideals and Nightmares 10. Stirring the Senses: Identity and Suspense in George MacDonald's David Elginbrod - Elizabeth Andrews 11. 'La Belle Dame' - Lilith and the Romantic Vampire Tradition - David Melville Wingrove 12. Gothic Degeneration and Romantic Rebirth in Donal Grant - Jennifer Koopman 13. Pictures on a Page: George MacDonald and the Visual Arts - Helen Sutherland Part Four: Scotland 14. Speaking Matrilineally (and Especially of Uncle Mackintosh MacKay) - Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson 15. How the Fairies were not Invited to Court - John Patrick Pazdziora 16. George MacDonald and the Grave Livers of Scotland - David Robb