The Fantasy Literature of England

The Fantasy Literature of England

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Publisher's Synopsis

In his ninth book about fantasy, Manlove traces how the genre developed in England not in the English language as a whole from Beowulf to Blake, and then describes in modern growth through the forms of secondary-world, metaphysical, emotive, comic, subversive, and children's fantasy. Arguing that England has led the world in fantasy, he discusses s

Book information

ISBN: 9780312219871
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Imprint: St. Martin's Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 820.915
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 222
Weight: 467g
Height: 224mm
Width: 147mm
Spine width: 21mm