The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature 1st Edition by Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn 9780521728737 0521728738

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ISBN 10: 0521728738

ISBN 13: 9780521728737

Author: Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn

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 its history 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 at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).

Table of contents:

Part I Histories

1 Fantasy from Dryden to Dunsany

2 Gothic and horror fiction

3 American fantasy 1820–1950

4 The development of children’s fantasy

5 Tolkien, Lewis and the explosion of genre fantasy

Part II Ways of reading

6 Structuralism

7 Psychoanalysis

8 Political readings

9 Modernism and postmodernism

10 Thematic criticism

11 The languages of the fantastic

12 Reading the fantasy series

13 Reading the slipstream

Part III Clusters

14 Magical realism

15 Writers of colour

16 Quest fantasies

17 Urban fantasy

18 Dark fantasy and paranormal romance

19 Modern children’s fantasy

20 Historical fantasy

21 Fantasies of history and religion

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