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Title:

The Victorian fantasists : essays on culture, society, and belief in the mythopoeic fiction of the Victorian Age / edited by Kath Filmer ; foreword by David Jasper.

Publisher:

St. Martin's Press,

Copyright Date:

1991

Description:

xviii, 221 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism
Fantastic literature, English--History and criticism.
Myth in literature.

Other Authors:

Filmer, Kath, 1943-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Count Dracula and the Martians / R.J. Dingley -- Heroine as hero : Morris's case against quest-romance / Norman Talbot -- The education of desire : utopian fiction and feminist fantasy / Anne Cranny Francis -- The realism of magic in the fantasy tradition of William Morris / Ken Goodwin -- Toward a rhetoric of nineteenth-century fantasy criticism / Bruce L. Edwards Jr. -- George MacDonald and the poetics of realism / Stephen Prickett -- La belle dame sans merci : cultural criticism and mythopoetic vision in Lilith / Kath Filmer -- Silent house : MacDonald, Bronte, and silence within the soul / Adelheid Kegler -- Christina Rossetti and the gender politics of fantasy / Barbara Garlick -- Dream allegory in Charles Kingsley and Olive Schreiner / Roslynn D. Haynes -- The spectre of the self in Frankenstein and Great expectations / Kath Filmer -- Happy endings in Hard times and Granny's wonderful chair / Alice Mills -- Richard Jefferies' vision of London / John Strugnell -- Domesticating the supernatural : magic in E. Nesbit's children's books / Elmar Schenkel.

ISBN:

9780312053130
0312053134

LCCN:

90042642

Locations:

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)