Category: Literature

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

    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…