奇幻小说

Chapter One： What Is Fantasy Writing?

Introduction

Beyond the Horizon

Epic Space

Chapter Two： Fantasy as Timeline

Introduction

The Origins of Modern Fantasy

Early Modern Fantasy

Tree Versus Leaf： Reading the Present Through the Past

Phantasm Versus Fantasia

Chapter Three： How to Read Fantasy; or， Dreams and Their Fictional Readers

Introduction

Reading Dreams

Medieval Dream Vision

The World in/of the Mirror

Chapter Four： The Best and Best Known

Introduction

Play and Nonsense： Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear

Cartographies and Geographies of Fantasy： Animal Farm and Gullivers Travels

J. R. R. Tolkien， The Lord of the Rings

Mary Shelley， Frankenstein： Discourses of Monstrosity

The Monsters of Middle Earth

Adolescent Monsters： Harry Potter

H. G. Wells： The First Men in the Moon and The Time Machine

Other Desires： Homoeroticism and the Feminine

Mothers and Mirrors： Harry Potter

Chapter Five： The Utopia as an Underlying Feature of All Major Modes of Fantasy

Introduction

Thomas More， Utopia

Jonathan Swift， Gullivers Travels

Charlotte Perkins Gilman， Her/and

H. G. Wells， The First Men in the Moon and The Time Machine

Inter-Generic Texts： The Time Machine and A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthurs Court

Yann Martel， Life of Pi

George Orwell， Animal Farm

Technology Versus Magic： A Connecticut Yankee and Harry Potter

Jeanette Winterson， The PowerBook

William Gibson， Neuromancer

Chapter Six： One Key Question： Is There Life for Fantasy Beyond Genre?

Introduction

Ghosts and Their Readers

Charles Dickens， A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens， The Signalman

Henry James， The Turn of the Screw

Edith Wharton， The Eyes

Chapter Seven： Fantasy Criticism

Introduction

Interrogating the Boundaries of Fantasy： Todorov， Matin，and Tolkien

Determining Spaces： Tolkien， Bettelheim， and Zipes

Fantasy as (Dream-)Screen： Psychoanalytic Approaches

New Bodies/New Knowledge： Massey， Haraway， and Botting

Chapter Eight： A Glossary of Terms

Chapter Nine： Selected Reading List

Index

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