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Fantastic Literature A Critical Reader
David Sandner
ISBN: 0-275-98053-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98053-5
376 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 6/30/2004
List Price: $65.00 (UK Sterling Price: £44.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Unprecedented in range and scope, this volume serves as a record of and reference for the development of fantasy literature. Working to be inclusive, rather than exclusive, opening a dialogue wherever possible, Sandner presents the full range of debates concerning the fantastic and its relationship to the sublime, the Gothic, children's literature, romance and comedy, and the purposes of imaginative literature. Introductions to each essay, presented in full or excerpted for the most relevant commentary, situate the reader in the history of fantasy literature and the criticism it has inspired.

New and important here are the claims for the early development of fantasy literature from the 18th century sublime. Previous histories of the genre regard Romanticism as a limit, but this reader draws from 18th, 19th, 20th, and even 21st century texts, revealing the unimagined scope of the field and developing a map of its early history for the first time. This important new volume presents, ultimately, the development of critical debates about the fantastic and its relationship to literature generally.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
    Phaedrus (388-366 B.C.E.), Plato
    The Poetics (33-323 B.C.E.), Aristotle
    An Apology for Poetry (1595), Philip Sidney
    "The Fairy Way of Writing" (1712), Joseph Addison
    Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762), Richard Hurd
    On The Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror (1773), Anna Laetitia Aikin (Barbauld)
    Letter (1797), and Biographia Literaria (1817), Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    On the Supernatural in Poetry (1826), Ann Radcliffe
    On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition (1827), Walter Scott
    Frauds on the Fairies (1853), Charles Dickens
    Fairy Stories (1868), John Ruskin
    The Fantastic Imagination (1890), George MacDonald
    Fairy Tales (1908), G. K. Chesterson
    The Uncanny (1919), Sigmund Freud
    Introduction to Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927), H. P. Lovecraft
    Critics (1956), Damon Knight
    Mythos of Summer: Romance (1957), Northrop Frye
    Characteristics of Genre and Plot Composition in Dostoevsky's Works (1963) Mikhail Bakhtin
    Definitions of Territory: Fantasy (1970), Italo Calvino
    The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (1970), Tzvetan Todorov
    From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973), Ursula Le Guin
    Introduction to Modern Fantasy (1975), Colin Manlove
    The Fantastic and Fantasy (1976), Eric Rabkin
    On the Evolution of a Word (1979), Stephen Prickett
    Magical Narratives: The Dialectical Use of Genre Criticism (1981), Fredric Jameson
    The Encounter with Fantasy (1982), Harold Bloom
    Literary Fantasy and Ecological Comedy (1985), Don D. Elgin
    "Fantasy" from Critical Terms for Science Fiction and Fantasy (1986), Gary Wolfe
    Nameless Things and Thingless Names (1987), Lance Olsen
    Fantasy as Mode, Genre, Formula (1992), Brian Attebery
    Phantasmagoria and the Metaphysics of Modern Reverie (1995), Terry Castle
    "Fantasy" from the Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), John Clute
    Joseph Addison: First Critic of the Fantastic (2000), David Sander
    Fabling to the Near Night (2000), Jane Yolen
    Introduction to Fantasy and Marxism (2002), China Mieville
About the Author: DAVID SANDNER is Assistant Professor of Romanticism and Children's Literature at California State University, Fullerton. He published Fantastic Sublime (Greenwood, 1996) on the influence of the Romantic sublime on 19th-century children's fantasy literature, and co-edited a collection of 19th and early 20th-century fantasy, The Treasury of the Fantastic (2001).
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