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Twentieth-Century Fantasists

Essays on Culture, Society and Belief in Twentieth-Century Mythopoeic Literature

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  • © 1992

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  1. Kath Filmer

    1. The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Kath Filmer
    Pages 1-7

  3. Science, Myth and Utopia

    • Roslynn Haynes
    Pages 8-22

  4. Wells, The First Men in the Moon, and Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy

    • David Lake
    Pages 23-33

  5. Visions from the Verge: Terror and Play in G.K. Chesterton’s Imagination

    • Elmar Schenkel
    Pages 34-46

  6. Meaning Everything: The Image of Pan at the Turn of the Century

    • Robert Dingley
    Pages 47-59

  7. The Eternal Feminine Reclaimed: Ford Madox Ford’s Medieval Fantasies

    • Virginia C. Kenny
    Pages 60-70

  8. Viewing ‘the Immense Panorama or Futility and Anarchy that is Contemporary History’ in the First Six Novels of Charles Williams

    • Marlene Mckinley
    Pages 71-91

  9. Tolkien, Epic Traditions, and Golden Age Myths

    • Charles A. Huttar
    Pages 92-107

  10. Atseiniau O Ddyddiau Gynt: Welsh Myth and Culture in Contemporary Fantasy

    • Kath Filmer
    Pages 108-120

  11. Wordsworth in Space: The Fantasies of William S. Burroughs

    • Duncan Wu
    Pages 121-134

  12. ‘Escape!’: That Dirty Word in Modern Fantasy: Le Guin’s Earthsea

    • Norman Talbot
    Pages 135-147

  13. ‘In the Demythologising Business’: Angela Carter’s The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr Hoffmann (1972)

    • Colin Manlove
    Pages 148-160

  14. The Handmaid’s Tale: Narrative Voice and the Primacy of the Tale

    • Barbara Garlick
    Pages 161-171

  15. Hammering the Demons: Sword, Sorcery and Contemporary Society

    • John Strugnell
    Pages 172-182

  16. Centring the Margins: Postmodernism and Fantasy

    • Stephen Prickett
    Pages 183-192

  17. Dreaming Each Other: The Discourse of Fantasy in Contemporary News Media

    • Kath Filmer
    Pages 193-206

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 207-212
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About this book

Twentieth-Century Fantasists is a collection of essays which examine the way in which fantasy literature functions as cultural and social criticism. Essays on Tolkien, Le Guin, Angela Carter, H.G. Wells and C.S. Lewis are included: and also works by William Burroughs, Ford Madox Ford, and Salman Rushdie are discussed. The book surveys the social and cultural changes of the twentieth century as reflected in the works of fantasy writers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Kath Filmer

About the editor

KATH FILMER teaches English at the University of Queensland. She is a Director of Writing and Editorial Services, taking workshops and seminars to readers' and writers' groups throughout Australia. She has edited The Victorian Fantasists and is author of The Fiction of C.S. Lewis: Mask and Mirror. She is a poet, publishing regularly in Poetry Monash, a journalist, and a writer of short fiction.

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