“Britain’s pagan religions and the stories that form their liturgy never really disappeared…”
Britain’s pagan religions and the stories that form their liturgy never really disappeared, the...
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“Landscape matters: Britain’s antique countryside…lends itself to fairy-tale invention. … America’s mighty vistas, by contrast, are less cozy, less human-scaled, and less haunted”
Landscape matters: Britain’s antique countryside, strewn with moldering castles and cozy farms, lends itself...
“If British children gathered in the glow of the kitchen hearth to hear stories about magic swords and talking bears, American children sat at their mother’s knee listening to tales larded with moral messages…”
If Harry Potter and Huckleberry Finn were each to represent British versus American children’s...