The Cambridge companion to fantasy literature / edited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn
Imprint
Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, c2012
Descript
xxiv, 268 p. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Fantasy from Dryden to Dunsany -- Gothic and horror fiction -- American fantasy 1820-1950 -- Tolkien, Lewis and the explosion of genre fantasy -- Structuralism -- Psychoanalysis -- Political reading -- Modernism and postmodernism -- Thematic criticism -- The language of the fantastic -- Reading the fantasy series -- Reading the slipstream -- Magical realism -- Writers of colour -- Quest fantasies -- Urban fantasy -- Dark fantasy and paranormal romance -- Modern children's fantasy -- Historical fantasy -- Fantasies of history religion
SUBJECT
Fantasy literature
English -- History and criticism
Fantasy literature
American -- History and criticism
Fantasy literature -- History and criticism -- Theory