Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy

ISBN-13: 9781350349995 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 232 str.

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List of Illustrations List of Contributors Series Editors’ Preface Acknowledgements Note on Spelling Introduction, Dr Dimitra Fimi (University of Glasgow, UK) Part 1: Celticity as Fantastic Intrusion 1. Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: The Celtic Fairy Realm in Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Dr K. A. Laity (College of Saint Rose, USA) 2. The Evolution of Alan Garner’s Celticity in Boneland, Gwendolen Grant (Independent Scholar) 3. Woman as Goddess in the Irish Fantasies of Jodi McIsaac, Kris Swank (Pima Community College, USA) Part 2: Celtic Fantasy Worlds and Heroes 4. The Heroic Biographies Of Cú Chulainn and Connavar in the Rigante Series, Alistair J. P. Sims (Independent Scholar) 5. Classical Ethnography and the World(s) of the Rigante, Anthony Smart (York St John University, UK) 6. Celts in Spaaaaace!, Cheryl Morgan (Independent Scholar) Part 3: Celtic Fantasy Beyond the Anglophone 7. From Vertigen to Frontier: The Fate of the Sidhes in Léa Silhol’s Fiction, Viviane Bergue (Independent scholar) 8. ‘Chaidh e nas doimhne agus nas doimhne ann an seann theacsaichean’: Gaelic history and legend in An Sgoil Dhubh by Iain F. MacLeòid, Duncan Sneddon (University of Edinburgh, UK) Part 4: Fantastic Perceptions of Celticity 9. The Celtic Tarot in Speculative Fiction, Juliette Wood (Cardiff University, UK) 10. Celtic Appropriation in Twenty-First-Century Fantasy Fan Perceptions, Angela R. Cox (Ball State University, USA) Index