Adam Roberts

Fantasy

A Short History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Broad-ranging comprehensive but concise this is a historical overview of the rise of genre Fantasy, tracings it roots, influences and evolution from the 19th to the 21st century across the globe, various media and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350407831
• ISBN-10: 1350407836
• Artikelnr.: 70955309

Autorenporträt

Adam Roberts

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part 1. The Roots of Modern Fantasy
1.Origins
2.Romanticism
3.Victorian medievalism
4.Folk and fairy tales
5.19th-century Bunyan
6.Arthuriana and the Fantasy Trilogy
7.Wagner and Tolkien
8.Children's Fantasy
9.William Morris
2. Fantasy in the 20th-Century
10. 1900-1914
11. World War One
12. 1920s: Animals and Fairylands
13: 1930s-1940s: Children's Fantasy
14: 1940s-1950s: Adult Fantasy
15. 1960s-1970s: The Boom
16. 1980s-1990s: Expansion and Imitation
3. 21st-Century Fantasy
17.Global Fantasy
18.Video games
19.Grimdark
20.Romantasy
21.Fantasy in the 2010s and 2020s
22.Instauration Fantasy
Bibliography
Index

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Preface
Part 1. The Roots of Modern Fantasy
1.Origins
2.Romanticism
3.Victorian medievalism
4.Folk and fairy tales
5.19th-century Bunyan
6.Arthuriana and the Fantasy Trilogy
7.Wagner and Tolkien
8.Children's Fantasy
9.William Morris

2. Fantasy in the 20th-Century
10. 1900-1914
11. World War One
12. 1920s: Animals and Fairylands
13: 1930s-1940s: Children's Fantasy
14: 1940s-1950s: Adult Fantasy
15. 1960s-1970s: The Boom
16. 1980s-1990s: Expansion and Imitation

3. 21st-Century Fantasy

17.Global Fantasy
18.Video games
19.Grimdark
20.Romantasy
21.Fantasy in the 2010s and 2020s
22.Instauration Fantasy

Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

In Fantasy, Adam Roberts retells the story of fantasy as a re-enchantment of, rather than an escape from, the present moment. The book is full to overflowing with deft readings of fantasy texts from JRR Tolkien to Susanna Clarke, showing how the genre is at its core a restorative reaction to mechanised, industrialised, bourgeois modernity. Merja Polvinen, Senior lecturer in English philology, University of Helsinki, Finland