Fairy Tales of London

British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av Hadas Elber-Aviram

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Finalist for the 2023 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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Utgivningsdatum2021-02-11
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt612 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor312
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350110670
UtmärkelserShort-listed for Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies 2022 (UK)

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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