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In this first book on English fantasy, Colin Manlove shows that for all its immense diversity, English fantasy can best be understood in terms of its strong national character rather than as an international genre. Showing its development from Beowulf to Blake, the author describes English fantasy's modern growth through the secondary world, metaphysical, emotive, comic, subversive and children's fantasy. Fantasy is often seen as being the same all over the world, but in fact it is strongly national in character, and as this book shows, nowhere more so than in England.
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In his ninth study of fantasy literature, Manlove (Univ. of Edinburgh) elucidates the unique and "extraordinarily diverse" nature of English fantasy. Accepting the notion of a "fuzzy set," in which a few works are central to the form, he discusses secondary world, metaphysical, emotive, comic, subversive, and children's fantasy. These six categories are not air-tight; for example, Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies (1863) appears in several chapters. Because he defines fantasy as anything containing the supernatural or the impossible, Manlove discusses a broad array of works, including Romantic poetry. His discussions contain some surprises, such as the classification of D.H. Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner" as a ghost story, and some disappointments, notably the weak analysis of Terry Pratchetts comic fantasies. However, most deftly synopsize and apply points he made in The Impulse of Fantasy Literature (CH, Apr'83) and Modern Fantasy (CH, Mar'76). To establish the unique English character of the works, he also frequently contrasts ideas in them with those presented in his Scottish Fantasy Literature (1994). Manlove is best when analyzing figures he previously discussed at length, but this volume's concentrated overviews, especially of children's books, constitute an excellent introduction to both fantasy and his more detailed studies. Undergraduate and graduate collections. R. E. Jones; University of Alberta
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Introduction |
The Origins of English Fantasy |
Secondary World Fantasy |
Metaphysical Fantasy |
Emotive Fantasy |
Comic Fantasy |
Subversive Fantasy |
Children's Fantasy |
Conclusion |
Index |