Fairy tales of london : british urban fantasy, 1840 to the present /
Hadas Elber-Aviram.
Bok Engelsk 2021 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (312 pages)
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| Utgave | First edition.
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| Opplysninger | 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.. - "From the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy. Charting a new history of London fantasy writing from the Victorian era to the 21st century, Fairy Tales of London explores a powerful tradition of urban fantasy distinct from the rural tales of writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien. Hadas Elber-Aviram traces this urban tradition from Dickens, through the scientific romances of H.G. Wells, the anti-fantasies of George Orwell and Mervyn Peake to contemporary science fiction and fantasy writers such as Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman and China Miv̌ille."--
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| ISBN | 1-350-11068-X. - 1-350-11069-8. - 1-350-11070-1
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