Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

Name: Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
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ISBN: 9780521728737

ISBN-10: 0521728738

ISBN-13: 9780521728737

Edition: 2011

Authors: Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn

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Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at the history of fantasy since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism…

Book details

List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/26/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 294
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Note on the contributors


Chronology


Introduction




Histories



Fantasy from Dryden to Dunsany




Gothic and horror fiction




American fantasy 1820-1950




The development of children's fantasy




Tolkien, Lewis and the explosion of genre fantasy




Ways of Reading



Structuralism




Psychoanalysis




Political readings




Modernism and postmodernism




Thematic criticism




The languages of the fantastic




Reading the fantasy series




Reading the slipstream




Clusters



Magical realism




Writers of colour




Quest fantasies




Urban fantasy




Dark fantasy and paranormal romance




Modern children's fantasy




Historical fantasy




Fantasies of history and religion



Further reading


Index