In this issue we get the chance to expand our George MacDonald horizons by taking a look at one of his often overlooked short stories: "The Day Boy and the Night Girl". Author Linda Montag takes us into the Victorian mindset and into the complexities and limitations of MacDonald's subversive thinking on gender in this illuminating article. For those of us familiar only with The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, or Phantastes, this story adds an important dimension to our understanding of MacDonald as a writer for children.
Journal
The Looking Glass : New Perspectives on Children's LiteratureISSN
1551-5680Volume
7Issue
1Publisher
La Trobe UniversitySection Title
Alice's AcademyAuthor Biography
Linda Montag teaches poetry and composition at the University of Haifa, Israel, where she is a doctoral candidate. Her dissertation is about the intertextual narrative produced by Byron's allusions to Shakespeare in Don Juan. Her research interests include the Romantics' reading of Shakespeare, Shakespeare as performed on the early nineteenth-century stage, Bardolatry, and children's literature.Date Created
2010-05-04Rights Statement
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