Fantasy Literature (original) (raw)

Literature

• Conventions, Reality, and Fantasy
• Fantasy and Conceptions of the Real
• The Novel, Fantastic Fiction, and the Inner World
• Allegorical Setting in Fantasy
• A Brief Discussion of Victorian Fantasy — Setting and Character
• The Ordinary and The Extraordinary
• Fantasy, Realism, and Sentimentality in Victorian Fairy Tale Illustrations
• The Subjectivity of Fantastic Visions
• The Invented World in Morris's Fantasy
• Exploring Pre-Raphaelitism at the Edges of Reality: Fantasy in The Water of the Wondrous Isles
• Realism in High Fantasy
• Unlikely Heroes and their role in Fantasy Literature
• The Role of Wizards in Fantasy Literature
• Characterization and Setting in MacDonald's Phantastes
• The Fantastic Narrator
• Fairie (or Fairyland) and the Human Imagination
• Bright Light and Shadow
• Reflections in Dunsany, MacDonald, Tolkien, and Others
• Shadows and Darkness: Learning to Triumph over Human Weakness
• The Limits of Magic
• Transcending Death: Mortality and Immortality in Fantasy Literature
• Time in the Fantastic Novel
• Nowhere, Neverland, Wonderland: les Ailleurs féériques des Victoriens (en français)

Victorian Fantasy Authors

• Lewis Carroll
• Lord Dunsany
• William Hope Hodgson
• Charles Kingsley
• George MacDonald
• George Meredith
• William Morris
• Christina Rossetti
• John Ruskin
• Bram Stoker

Visual Arts

• Art to Enchant: The Development of Victorian Fairy Painting
• Fantasy and Realism in Victorian Art
• Victorian Fantasy and Fairy Painters
• Victorian illustrators of fantasy
  • George Cruikshank
  • Richard "Dicky" Doyle
  • Arthur Boyd Houghton
  • [“The Faeries’ Favourite” by John Anster Fitzgerald (1832-1906)](../art/il<a href=)lustration/dgr/index.html">Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Bernard Sleigh
  • John Tenniel

Fantasy literature thrived in the second half of the twentieth century. Leading authors include Peter S. Beagle, Stephen Donaldson, Ursula K. LeGuin, C. S. Lewis, Ann McCaffrey, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Gene Wolfe.

Selected Bibliography

The Aesthetics of Fantasy Literature and Art. Ed. Roger C. Schlobin. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1982; London: Harvester, 1982. [Contains useful bibliographical guides.]

Fantastic Illustration and Design in Britain, 1850-1930. Providence, Rhode Island School of Design.

Manlove, C. N. Modern Fantasy: Five Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1975.

Rabkin, Eric S.The Fantastic in Literature. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1976.

An Essential Web Resource

• Hall W. Halls's authoritative Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database at the Texas A&M library

"As of February 2005, the database indexes 67,350 discrete items by author, title, and subject terms. The database contains citations only (with some URL links) to the history and criticism of science fiction, fantasy, and some material on horror and the gothic. It includes monographs, theses, dissertations, and material from scholarly journals, popular journals, newspapers, fanzines, and pretty much anything else that comes to hand. "

Last modified 2 August 2017