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Author:   Michael G. Cornelius ,  Marybeth Ragsdale-Richards
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.313kg
ISBN:  

9781476686585

ISBN 10:   1476686580
Pages:   239
Publication Date:   11 January 2023
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Sites of Speculation: Contestation, Imagination, and the Places of Childhood Fancy Michael G. Cornelius Alice Retaught: A Child’s Experience of ­Rule-Making and ­Rule-Following in Social Space Dakota Root On the Road to Oz: Crossing Fantasy Spaces in L. Frank Baum’s Oz Series Steven A. Nardi Topoi and Character in the Redwall Series John R. Gilhooly Mind the Verbal Cartographic Gap: Uncovering Power in the Fantasy Multiverse of Diana Wynne Jones’ Chrestomanci Series Julia Jin Wang The Map Is Not the Territory: Mapping Growth and Change in Catherynne M. Valente’s Fairyland Series Ellis Khachidze Sowing the Seeds of Fear: Architecting Fearscapes in R.L. Stine’s Fear Street Saga Marybeth Ragsdale-Richards (Un)Making Hell: Mirror Journeys in The Mortal Instruments and Dante’s Inferno Raphaela Behounek Myth, Place, and Time in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Sean Ferrier-Watson Space as a Journey to Survival in Ann Aguirre’s Enclave Jessica Newman-Doubell Terror Castles and Red Gate Farms: “Haunted” Childhoods and the Commodification of Space Michael G. Cornelius Understanding ­Multi-World Metafiction Through ­Place-Attachment: Base World, New World, and (In)Complete World in the Inkheart Trilogy Wenduo Zhang Conclusion: The Limits of Fancy Michael G. Cornelius and Marybeth Ragsdale-Richards About the Contributors Index

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Michael G. Cornelius is a professor of English and director of the Master’s of Humanities program at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning novelist and the author or editor of numerous scholarly works. Marybeth Ragsdale-Richards teaches in the English and Women’s Studies programs at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

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