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Title: Magick as a Threshold to the Forgotten: Hope Mirrlees and Susanna Clarke's Fantasy
Authors: Lencina, Eva
Keywords: Magic;Mirrlees;Clarke;Magia
Issue Date: 2025
Publisher: Avellino : Associazione Culturale Internazionale Sinestesie
Citation: Lencina, Eva. Magick as a Threshold to the Forgotten: Hope Mirrlees and Susanna Clarke's Fantasy, Sinestesieonline, A. 14, no. 46 (marzo 2025): 349-363
Abstract: We explore how Hope Mirrlees’s Lud-in-the-Mist (1926) influenced Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), both recovering lost English magic as a bridge to a mythic past. Mirrlees’s Fairyland, a forgotten yet seeping presence, parallels Clarke’s Faerie. Their transtextual ties reveal art as a second reality. Lud-in-the-Mist’s elusive, dreamlike tone subtly shapes modern fantasy, its quiet resonance felt in Clarke's intricate worldbuilding and beyond.
Lud-in-the-Mist di Hope Mirrlees ha influenzato Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell di Susanna Clarke, entrambe esplorando la magia inglese perduta come ponte verso un passato mitico. La Fairyland di Mirrlees, dimenticata ma persistente, riecheggia la Faerie di Clarke. I loro legami transtestuali rivelano l'arte come una seconda realtà. L’atmosfera sfuggente e onirica di Lud modella silenziosamente il fantasy moderno, con la sua influenza percepibile nella complessa costruzione del mondo di Clarke.
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ISSN: 2280-6849
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