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Author:   Dr Hadas Elber-Aviram (University of Notre Dame, London, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9781350110670

ISBN 10:   1350110671
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   11 February 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction A tale of two fantasies 1. The phantom out of Oxford Street: Dickens’s fairyland 2. The Martian on Primrose Hill: Wells’s scientific romances 3. The bells of lost London: Orwell’s and Peake’s anti-fantasies 4. A pyramid of flesh on Villiers Street: New Worlds magazine and the Jerry Cornelius myth 5. ‘My home, the city’: Secondary-World London Bibliography Index

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This ambitious and important book advances a persuasive new reading of 19th and 20th-century British Fantasy writing, exploring the dynamic between a tradition of Rural Imagination, typified by writers like Ruskin, MacDonald, Tolkien and C S Lewis and one of Urban Fantasy typified by Dickens, Wells, Orwell, Peake and China Mieville. It marks an important intervention into the on-going critical debate about writing of the fantastic. -- Adam Roberts, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

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Hadas Elber-Aviram is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, London, UK.

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