Writing and Fantasy

ISBN-13: 9780582309111 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 308 str.

Sullivan Carl and White Barbara [Eds ]; Ceri Sullivan; Barbara White

Opis

Providing a guide to fantasy writing from the classical period to the 20th century, this text focuses on different examples of how fantasy has acted as a political response to cultural opportunities and pressures. A wide variety of styles and genres are investigated.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  General Editors' Preface  Writing and Fantasy: An Introduction, CERI SULLIVAN AND BARBARA WHITE  PART ONE: EARLY  1. Modern Fantasy and Ancient Dreams, CHRIS PELLING  2. The Fairy Mistress in Medieval Literary Fantasy, CAROLYNE LARRINGTON  3. Haunting the Middle Ages, MARK PHILPOTT  4. Chivalry: Fantasy and Fear, RICHARD W. KAEUPER  PART TWO: EARLY MODERN  5. Dreaming of Eve: Edenic Fantasies in John Milton's `Paradise Lost', MARGARET KEAN  6. Jonson, the Antimasque and the Literary Fantastic: `The Vision of Delight', LESLEY E. MICKEL  7. Writing Sexual Fantasy in the English Renaissance: Potency, Power and Poetry, DANIELLE CLARKE  8. Silly Money, Fantastic Credit, CERI SULLIVAN  9. The Politics of Escapism: Fantasies of Travel and Power in Richard Brome's `The Antipodes' and Ben Jonson's `The Alchemist', JULIE SANDERS  10. Travel and Sexual Fantasy in the Early Modern Period, DANIEL CAREY  11. Jenny Voss: the Fantasy of Female Criminality, BARBARA WHITE  PART THREE: TWENTIETH CENTURY  12. The Grotesque Utopias of Jeanette Winterson and Monique Wittig, LUCIE ARMITT  13. Fantasy, Childhood, and Literature: in Pursuit of Wonderlands, KARIN LESNIK-OBERSTEIN  14. The Decline and Fall of the Great English Ghost Story, JULIAN THOMPSON  15. `Never Love a Cowboy': Romance Fiction and Fantasy Families, PETER STONELEY  16. Fantasy and the Ideal of the Individual in Twentieth-Century English Domestic Architecture, TIMOTHY MOWL  PART FOUR: SELECTED DOCUMENTS  17. Herodotus 7. 12-19  18. Tacitus, `Annals' 16. 1-3  19. Plutarch, `Marius' 45  20. Plutarch, `Sulla' 37  21. From `The Confession of Arnaud Gelis, alias "Botheler", of Mas-Saint-Antonin de Pamiers, a heretical convert'  22. `Concerning Henry "Nodus" who after his death appeared visibly to many people' from Caesarius of Heisterbach, `Dialogus Miraculorum'  23. From Ben Jonson, `The Vision of Delight' (1617)  24. From Henry Neville, `The Isle of Pines' (1668)  25. From `The London Jilt' (1684)  Notes on contributors  Select bibliography  Index

O autorze

Ceri Sullivan Barbara White