A01=Barbara White
A01=Ceri Sullivan
Author_Barbara White
Author_Ceri Sullivan
Brome's Play
Brome’s Play
butler
Category=DS
Christopher Robin
Contemporary Society
cultural representation theory
Curtain Lecture
cycle
Demon Knights
Dolorous Stroke
domestic architecture studies
English Ghost Story
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eq_biography-true-stories
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eq_isMigrated=2
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Fairy Mistress
Fairy Tale Girl
fantastic
feminist utopias
Freeing Women
gender and power dynamics
ghost
Ghost Story
Harriet Frean
historical literary analysis
Home Town
imaginary
Jailer's Wife
Jailer’s Wife
Lancelot Grail Cycle
literature
martin
Mid Air
Moll Cutpurse
Monist Creation
Nashe's Poem
Nashe’s Poem
political uses of fantasy literature
psychoanalytic criticism
Rocking Horse Winner
Rogue Literature
Shakespeare's Richard III
Shakespeare’s Richard III
Stilo Recitativo
stories
Unreal Estate
voyages
vulgate
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138439900
- Weight: 730g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 14 Aug 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Writing and Fantasy brings together essays which restore a sense of the fantastic as a political response to cultural opportunities and pressures. It moves on from two conventional fields of discussion: the psychoanalytic, where phantasies are produced by the emergence of the consciousness, and the social, where fantasies are the production of nineteenth-century individualism. Chapters run from the classical period to the twentieth century, each focusing on a local reading of how fantasy acts as a strategy to contain or exploit specific historical and cultural moments. A wide variety of sites are investigated including the feminization of the wild west, originary and maternal spaces, highwaywomen, financial credit, and the ideal home. Multiple genres containing fantasy are explored, ranging from ghost stories to feminist utopias.Aids to the reader include an introduction summarising recent discussions of fantasy, illustrations dealing with visual fantasies, and an annotated bibliography. The new research presented here will be of great interest to academics and students in literature, history and cultural studies departments who are working in the field of the historical development of concepts of fantasy, cultural opposition, and the imbrication of politics and modes of representation.
