Fantasy : a short history /
One of the most popular genres of modern times, fantasy literature has as rich a cultural and literary heritage as the magical worlds that so enrapture its readers. In this book, a concise history of the genre, Adam Roberts traces the central forms and influences on fantasy through the centuries to...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: The roots of modern fantasy - 1. Origins
- 2. Romanticism
- 3. Victorian medievalism
- 4. Folk and fairy tales
- 5. Nineteenth-century Bunyan
- 6. Arthuriana and the fantasy trilogy
- 7. Wagner and Tolkien
- 8. Children's fantasy
- 9. William Morris
- Part 2: Fantasy in the twentieth century - 10. 1900-14
- 11. First World War
- 12. 1920s: Animals and fairylands
- 13. 1930s-40s: Children's fantasy
- 14. 1940s-50s: Adult fantasy
- 15. 1960s-70s: The boom
- 16. 1980s-90s: Expansion and imitation
- Part 3: Twenty-first century fantasy - 17. Global fantasy
- 18. Video games
- 19. Grimdark
- 20. Romantasy
- 21. Fantasy in the 2010s and 2020s
- 22. Instauration fantasy