Portals of Power

Lori M. Campbell is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Preface      Introduction      PARTWomen and Other Magical Creatures: Portals in Romance and Fairy Tale1. Who “Wears the Pants” in Faërie? The Woman Question in William Morris’s The Wood Beyond the World      2. “For I am but a girl”: The Problem of Female Power in Ford Madox Ford’s The Brown Owl      PARTCharms, Places, and Little Girls: Portals in Children’s Literature3. E. Nesbit and the Magic Word: Empowering Child and Woman in Real-World Fantasy      4. Lost Boys to Men: Romanticism and the Magic of the Female Imagination in J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden      PARTHaunted Houses and the Hidden Self: Portals in the Gothic, Low Fantasy, and Science Fiction5. Confronting Chaos at the In-Between: William Hope Hodgson’s The House on the Borderland      6. The Society Insider/Outsider and the Sympathetic Supernatural in Fantastic Tales by Edith Wharton and Oscar Wilde      PARTHaunting History: The Portal in Modern/Postmodern Fantasy7. One World to Rule Them All: The Un-Making and Re-Making of the Symbolic Portal in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings      8. Harry Potter and the Ultimate In-Between: J.K. Rowling’s Portals of Power      9. Portals Between Then and Now: Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, Neil Gaiman, and Jonathan Stroud      Chaper Notes      Bibliography      Index