Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion

Mayurika Chakravorty is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (Childhood and Youth Studies program), Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She was a Felix doctoral scholar and holds a Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK. She was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge for the Easter Term, 2024. She researches and writes on fantasy and speculative literature; children’s literature; and the representation of childhood and girlhood in literature and media.

• PrefaceChapter 1: Introduction: Resisting DisenchantmentChapter 2: Romance, Freedom, and Unreason: An Unorthodox Romantic in an Age of ReasonChapter 3: Marvellous Encounters and Perilous Realms: Quest, Adventure, and Socio-political Critique Chapter 4: The Logic of Nonsense: The Enchanted Realm of Sukumar Ray’s Ha-Ja-Ba-Ra-La and Other WritingsChapter 5: Chemistry of the Intellect: Satire, Science, and Subversion ConclusionAppendixBibliographyIndex