Victorian Fantasy - Softcover

Prickett, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932792309 ISBN 13: 9781932792300

Publisher: Baylor University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Far from being just children's literature, Victorian Fantasy is an art form that flourished in opposition to the repressive social and intellectual conditions of "Victorianism." In this fully revised and expanded edition, Stephen Prickett explores the way in which Victorian writers used non-realistic techniques--nonsense, dreams, visions, and the creation of other worlds--to extend our understanding of this world. In particular, Prickett focuses on six writers (Lear, Carroll, Kingsley, MacDonald, Kipling, and Nesbit), tracing the development of their art form, their influences on each other, and how these writers used fantasy to question the ideology of Victorian culture and society.

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From the Inside Flap:

Victorian Fantasy is one of the few critical works which has lasted, deservedly, for twenty five years. Here in its reappearance in an expanded second edition, it once again takes fantasy beyond the easy evasions of a merely comfortable “alternative,” out to the very limits of imaginative thought and belief. The new work provided here, in particular on the still neglected genius of George MacDonald, confirms Victorian Fantasy—both book and subject—as serious exploration and powerful experiment. —Philip Davis, University of Liverpool, author of The Victorians in the new Oxford English Literary History A new and expanded edition of Prickett’s Victorian Fantasy is indeed welcome. This book remains the most authoritative study of the literary counter culture of Victorian literature. Prickett convincingly connects writers from Walpole to Kipling and Nesbit to a tradition that sees fantasy as a matter of utmost importance to the spirit and its connection to reality. —Roderick McGillis, Professor of English, University of Calgary

About the Author:

Stephen Prickett (Ph.D. Cambridge) is the Director of Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, and he is the author or editor of eleven volumes, including Narrative, Religion, and Science; The Bible and Literature; Origins of Narrative; and Words and the Word.

About this edition

• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1932792309
• ISBN 13: 9781932792300
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 310