Roderick McGillis

A Complete Identity

Arts & Literature

“Focusing on two ostensibly disparate writers, Rachel Johnson's study, A Complete Identity, admirably describes the multifaceted hero in both realistic and speculative fiction of the Victorian period. Johnson's project is to demonstrate the fluidity of genre and the similarity of vision in writers who are only superficially on opposite sides of literary expression. She does both MacDonald and Henty a service. This is a daring and innovative project, thoroughly researched and engagingly written.”

George MacDonald's Children's Fantasies and the Divine Imagination

Arts & Literature

“Colin Manlove’s George MacDonald’s Children’s Fantasies and the Divine Imagination is the most thorough and creative exploration of MacDonald’s conception of the imagination that we have. . . . This work is comprehensive, and quite simply the best critical study of MacDonald’s most enduring fiction. Manlove brings formidable erudition to his exploration, and he delivers brilliant readings of MacDonald’s work. This is an indispensable study of MacDonald.”