Fairy Tales of London
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-20282-5 (ISBN)
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 Miéville.
Hadas Elber-Aviram is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, London, UK.
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
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
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.08.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 14 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-20282-7 / 1350202827 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-20282-5 / 9781350202825 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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