Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 294 Seiten)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781350110700
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9781350110694
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9781350110687
Content:
Introduction A 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.
Content:
"From 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 Miv̌ille."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350202825
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350110670
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
DOI:
10.5040/9781350110700
