The Fantasy Literature of England

The Fantasy Literature of England
ISBN-10
1532677553
ISBN-13
9781532677557
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
230
Language
English
Published
2020-05-11
Publisher
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Author
Colin N. Manlove

Description

In this, the first book on English fantasy, Colin Manlove shows that for all its immense diversity, English fantasy can best be understood in terms of its strong national character, rather than as an international genre. Showing its development from Beowulf to Blake, the author describes English fantasy's modern growth through secondary world, metaphysical, emotive, comic, subversive, and children's fantasy. In them all England has led the world, with authors as different as Chaucer, Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Salman Rushdie.

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