Author : Colin N. Manlove
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1532677553
Book 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.