Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-216) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Re-thinking genre, thinking about race -- Founding fantasy: J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard -- Forming habits: derivation, imitation, and adaptation -- The real middle ages: gritty fantasy -- Orcs and otherness: monsters on page and screen -- Popular culture postcolonialism -- Relocating roots: urban fantasy -- Breaking habits and digital communication.
Series:
Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature ; 51
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