The Fantasy Literature of England

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
Published: 05/11/2020
ISBN: 9781532677564
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d