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- W2972474725 abstract "This Effect Defective Comes by Cause:Disability and George MacDonald's The Light Princess Danielle E. Price (bio) Narrative prosthesis (or the dependency of literary narratives upon disability) forwards the notion that all narratives operate out of a desire to compensate for a limitation or to reign in excess. —David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder (53) George MacDonald was a prolific writer, but few of his children's writings appeal to our modern sensibility. The exceptions are two of his novels—The Princess and the Goblin (1872) and The Princess and Curdie (1883)—and his short story, The Light Princess (1864).1 The Light Princess is one of several Victorian retellings of Sleeping Beauty. In MacDonald's version, as in Charles Perrault's, a king and queen finally have a child; they hold a christening but forget to invite a vengeful fairy; she comes anyway and curses the child. The curse in The Light Princess, however, is not to fall into a death-like sleep at puberty; instead, the curse causes the baby to lose her gravity, in both senses of the word: she instantly becomes light in mind and in body—so light that she will, if not tethered, float to the ceiling, or even out the window. Unlike Sleeping Beauty, whose curse causes her absolute immobility, the light princess has a frightening amount of impossible-to-control mobility. She also cannot be made to understand that there is something amiss with the levity that accompanies her flotation: To make the princess cry was as impossible as to make her weigh (47). This essay claims that the princess functions as a disabled character—different from her parents, contravening social norms, unable, until the story's end, to walk unaided. Indeed, the text exemplifies the classic narrative pattern set out by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder for stories of disability: revelation, search for origins, focus on the anomaly, solution (53–54). [End Page 1] The Light Princess, however, also goes beyond this pattern by presenting in a single package our primary discourses for conceptualizing disability: the moral, medical, and social models. And unlike many fairy tales where disabled heroines lose their agency, the light princess retains hers. She enhances this agency by finding her own curative space and keeping it. Scholarship on The Light Princess has focused on several key areas including its publishing history, genre, and themes. The text initially appeared as an interpolated tale in MacDonald's novel for adults, Adela Cathcart (1864). In that novel, the title character suffers from what we would call depression, her family and friends rally to help her by forming a story club, and The Light Princess is the first story told. Thus, critics have been keen to discuss the relationship between The Light Princess and Adela Cathcart, including the ways in which the title characters resemble each other.2 Other critics have focused on genre, analyzing The Light Princess's connection to the fairy tale tradition that the Victorians embraced and reinvented.3 In particular, critics have discussed the text as a rewriting of Sleeping Beauty, a story that would have been well known to the Victorians through the versions of Perrault's Sleeping Beauty circulating from the time of Robert Samber's 1729 translation of Perrault's La Belle au Bois Dormant and Edgar Taylor's 1823 translation of the Brothers Grimms' Dornröschen (translated by Taylor as Rose-Bud).4 Considerations of genre in The Light Princess often overlap with thematic approaches. One of the most common of these is to examine the text for connections to George MacDonald's Christianity. MacDonald began his professional career as a Congregationalist minister (he was forced out of his congregation because of his unorthodox views on salvation) and is well known for his writings on religion and his influence on C. S. Lewis.5 Other thematic approaches have read The Light Princess as a critique of certain elements of Victorian society (for example, its tendency to mechanism), a response to the Victorian crisis of faith, or a work of ecocriticism.6 The most interesting research on The Light Princess to date has analyzed its connections to Victorian gender politics..." @default.
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- W2972474725 title "This Effect Defective Comes by Cause: Disability and George MacDonald's The Light Princess" @default.
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