The Fantasy Literature of England
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.
Keywords
FictionLiterary CriticismEuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
1999Book
Author(s)C. N. Manlove
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780333730195
LanguageEnglish
