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George MacDonald’s Phantastes and the Baptism of Lewis’s Imagination

C.S. Lewis famously wrote that reading George MacDonald’s Phantastes “baptized” his imagination. In this course, students will read a sampling of MacDonald’s theology, literary philosophy, and fairy tales, in particular Phantastes, and conclude with Lewis’s The Great Divorce, where Lewis gives MacDonald a parallel function in his allegorical dream vision to that of Virgil in…