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Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present de Dr Hadas Elber-Aviram

Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present

Autor Dr Hadas Elber-Aviram
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 aug 2022
Finalist for the 2022 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy StudiesFrom the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy. Charting a new history of London fantasy writing from the Victorian era to the 21st century, Fairy Tales of London explores a powerful tradition of urban fantasy distinct from the rural tales of writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien. Hadas Elber-Aviram traces this urban tradition from Dickens, through the scientific romances of H.G. Wells, the anti-fantasies of George Orwell and Mervyn Peake to contemporary science fiction and fantasy writers such as Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman and China Miéville.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350202825
ISBN-10: 1350202827
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: 14 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Examines the work of a wide range of writers, including: Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman and China Miéville

Notă biografică

Hadas Elber-Aviram is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, London, UK.

Cuprins

List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations IntroductionA tale of two fantasies 1. The phantom out of Oxford Street: Dickens's fairyland 2. The Martian on Primrose Hill: Wells's scientific romances 3. The bells of lost London: Orwell's and Peake's anti-fantasies 4. A pyramid of flesh on Villiers Street: New Worlds magazine and the Jerry Cornelius myth 5. 'My home, the city': Secondary-World London BibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Insightful ... Fairy Tales of London is a lucid piece of detective work in the field of literary genre.
Elber-Aviram leads readers through a sustained examination of almost two centuries of the urban fantasy tradition, grounding her analysis in the Victorian era and hearkening back to Dickens's work in every chapter. This book will certainly be of interest to scholars of both rural and urban fantasy fiction, and Victorian periodical scholars will perhaps be inspired to consider rural and urban fantasy traditions in periodicals.
For scholars focusing on considerations of place and urban fantasy, and London in particular, this monograph represents a crucial text for charting the origins and approaches within the genre, whilst also wholeheartedly championing the potentiality of urban fantasy.
This ambitious and important book advances a persuasive new reading of 19th and 20th-century British Fantasy writing, exploring the dynamic between a tradition of Rural Imagination, typified by writers like Ruskin, MacDonald, Tolkien and C S Lewis and one of Urban Fantasy typified by Dickens, Wells, Orwell, Peake and China Mièville. It marks an important intervention into the on-going critical debate about writing of the fantastic.