Ceri Sullivan, Barbara White

Writing and Fantasy (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Writing and Fantasy brings together essays which restore a sense of the fantastic as a political response to cultural opportunities and pressures. It moves on from two conventional fields of discussion: the psychoanalytic, where phantasies are produced by the emergence of the consciousness, and the social, where fantasies are the production of nineteenth-century individualism. Chapters run from the classical period to the twentieth century, each focusing on a local reading of how fantasy acts as a strategy to contain or exploit specific historical and cultural moments. A wide variety of sites are investigated including the feminization of the wild west, originary and maternal spaces, highwaywomen, financial credit, and the ideal home. Multiple genres containing fantasy are explored, ranging from ghost stories to feminist utopias.

Aids to the reader include an introduction summarising recent discussions of fantasy, illustrations dealing with visual fantasies, and an annotated bibliography. The new research presented here will be of great interest to academics and students in literature, history and cultural studies departments who are working in the field of the historical development of concepts of fantasy, cultural opposition, and the imbrication of politics and modes of representation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317883791
• Artikelnr.: 41067859

Autorenporträt

Ceri Sullivan

Barbara White

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements General Editors' Preface Writing and Fantasy: An Introduction
CERI SULLIVAN AND BARBARA WHITE PART ONE: EARLY 1. Modern Fantasy and Ancient Dreams
CHRIS PELLING 2. The Fairy Mistress in Medieval Literary Fantasy
CAROLYNE LARRINGTON 3. Haunting the Middle Ages
MARK PHILPOTT 4. Chivalry: Fantasy and Fear
RICHARD W. KAEUPER PART TWO: EARLY MODERN 5. Dreaming of Eve: Edenic Fantasies in John Milton's `Paradise Lost'
MARGARET KEAN 6. Jonson
the Antimasque and the Literary Fantastic: `The Vision of Delight'
LESLEY E. MICKEL 7. Writing Sexual Fantasy in the English Renaissance: Potency
Power and Poetry
DANIELLE CLARKE 8. Silly Money
Fantastic Credit
CERI SULLIVAN 9. The Politics of Escapism: Fantasies of Travel and Power in Richard Brome's `The Antipodes' and Ben Jonson's `The Alchemist'
JULIE SANDERS 10. Travel and Sexual Fantasy in the Early Modern Period
DANIEL CAREY 11. Jenny Voss: the Fantasy of Female Criminality
BARBARA WHITE PART THREE: TWENTIETH CENTURY 12. The Grotesque Utopias of Jeanette Winterson and Monique Wittig
LUCIE ARMITT 13. Fantasy
Childhood
and Literature: in Pursuit of Wonderlands
KARIN LESNIK-OBERSTEIN 14. The Decline and Fall of the Great English Ghost Story
JULIAN THOMPSON 15. `Never Love a Cowboy': Romance Fiction and Fantasy Families
PETER STONELEY 16. Fantasy and the Ideal of the Individual in Twentieth-Century English Domestic Architecture
TIMOTHY MOWL PART FOUR: SELECTED DOCUMENTS 17. Herodotus 7. 12-19 18. Tacitus
`Annals' 16. 1-3 19. Plutarch
`Marius' 45 20. Plutarch
`Sulla' 37 21. From `The Confession of Arnaud Gelis
alias Botheler
of Mas-Saint-Antonin de Pamiers
a heretical convert' 22. `Concerning Henry Nodus who after his death appeared visibly to many people' from Caesarius of Heisterbach
`Dialogus Miraculorum' 23. From Ben Jonson
`The Vision of Delight' (1617) 24. From Henry Neville
`The Isle of Pines' (1668) 25. From `The London Jilt' (1684) Notes on contributors Select bibliography Index