Fairy Tales of London
British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Date of Publication: 11 February 2021
Number of Volumes: Hardback
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| ISBN13: | 9781350110670 |
| ISBN10: | 1350110671 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 312 pages |
| Size: | 234x156 mm |
| Weight: | 612 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 14 bw illus |
| 287 |
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Finalist for the 2022 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies
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 Miéville.
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 Miéville.
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
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
