Alan Garner and the work of time
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Alan Garner
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Deep time
Eerie
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Fantasy
Folk horror
forthcoming
Hauntology
History
Landscape writing
Memory
Ontology
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- ISBN 9781526188984
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Alan Garner has been described by Philip Pullman as ‘the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien’. This book is the first collected edition to critically analyse Garner’s body of work. This comprehensive analysis stretches from Garner’s early work, from the straightforward magical world of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960) to the more challenging ‘adolescent fiction’ of The Owl Service (1967) and Red Shift (1973). It then moves to analysis of Garner’s subsequent corpus of work that is remarkable for both its thematic continuity and imaginative range, including Strandloper (1996), Thursbitch (2003) and Boneland (2012). His most recent novel, Treacle Walker, was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and recent criticism centred on folk horror and hauntology has reignited a critical and public acknowledgement of Garner’s work.
Robert Edgar is Professor of Writing and Popular Culture at York St John University
Wayne Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies at York St John University
John Marland is Senior Lecturer in Literature at York St John University
