At the Back of the North Wind (1868)

ISBN-13: 9781554810307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 406 str.

George MacDonald

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Still powerful and relevant, a cogent attack on organozed religion and literal interpretations of the Bible.

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Acknowledgements
Preface, Stephen Prickett
Introduction
George MacDonald: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text and Illustrations

At the Back of the North Wind

Appendix A: Good Words for the Young and the Serial Publication of At the Back of the North Wind

1. Mark Knight, Introduction: Good Words for the Young
2. Cover of Good Words for the Young (1869)
3. Norman Macleod, Editor’s Address (1869)
4. Cover of Good Words for the Young (1870)
5. George MacDonald, Editor’s Greeting (1 December 1870)
6. “The Mother’s Prayer” (1869)
7. Two Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (1 July1870)
1. “The Rags”
2. “What the Whole Family Said”
8. “Up in Heaven” (1870)
9. Arthur Hughes, Illustration for Ranald Bannerman’s Boyhood (1871)
10. Arthur Hughes, Illustration for The Princess and the Goblin (1872)

Appendix B: Children’s Literature and the Victorian Consciousness

1. Review of At the Back of the North Wind, The Athenaeum (March 1871)
2. Mark Twain and George MacDonald
1. Letter from Twain to MacDonald (19 September 1882)
2. Letter from Twain to W.D. Howells (1899)
3. From Poems in Two Volumes, by William Wordsworth (1807)
1. “My heart leaps up” (written in 1802)
2. From “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” (written in 1802-04)
4. George MacDonald, “The Child in the Midst” (1867)
5. Cartoon of MacDonald as “Goody Goody” (2 November 1872)
6. George Cattermole, Illustration from Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
7. Hammatt Billings, Illustration from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

Appendix C: Literary and Cultural Connections

1. From Aesop, “The North Wind and the Sun”
2. From Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies (1863)
3. From Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
4. Henry Mayhew, “Crossing-Sweepers,” from London Labour and the London Poor (1852)

Appendix D: Victorian Fairy-Tale Debate

1. Charles Dickens, “Frauds on the Fairies” (1 October 1853)
2. From George Cruikshank, Cinderella and the Glass Slipper (1854)
3. John Ruskin, “Fairy Stories” (1868)
4. George Cruikshank, Illustration of “Rumple-Stilts-Kin” (1823)
5. George Cruikshank, Illustration of “The Elves and the Shoemaker” (1823)
6. George MacDonald, “The Fantastic Imagination” (1893)

Appendix E: Illustrations of At the Back of the North Wind

1. Jan Susina, Introduction: “The Brotherhood between George MacDonald and Arthur Hughes”: Hughes’s Illustrations toMacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind
2. Robert Trexler, Five Early Illustrators of At the Back of the North Wind

Appendix F: Maps and Other Illustrative Images

1. Sandford Map of Central London, 1862
2. Sandford Map of Central London, 1862 (detail)
3. Maps of Hyperborean Region
4. Parts of a Horse
5. Parts of a Hansom Cab
6. Currency in Victorian England

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