Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present
Hadas Elber-Aviram, "Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present"
English | ISBN: 1350110671 | 2021 | 312 pages | PDF | 10 MB
English | ISBN: 1350110671 | 2021 | 312 pages | PDF | 10 MB
From the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy. Charting a new history of London fantasy writing from the Victorian era to the 21st century, Fairy Tales of London explores a powerful tradition of urban fantasy distinct from the rural tales of writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien. Hadas Elber-Aviram traces this urban tradition from Dickens, through the scientific romances of H.G. Wells, the anti-fantasies of George Orwell and Mervyn Peake to contemporary science fiction and fantasy writers such as Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman and China Miéville.