The A to Z of Fantasy Literature

by Stableford, Brian M.

  The best broad accounts of the fantasy genre as it is presently conceived, and the most useful first ports of call for the interested reader, are the Encyclopedia of Fantasy, edited by John Clute and John Grant, and the St.

  James Press Guide to Fantasy Writers, edited by David Pringle. The history of fantasy is too extensive to be comprehensively covered in any single volume, although Lin Carter’s Imaginary Worlds is a convenient synoptic sketch, while Brian Attebery’s The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature and Colin Manlove’s The Fantasy Literature of England are ex-cellent surveys of domestic traditions.

  Attebery and Manlove are also among the leading aesthetic theorists of the genre; crucial work has also been done by Robert Scholes, Kathryn Hume, Marina Warner, and Jack Zipes, although the interested reader really needs to start with J. R. R. Tolkien’s seminal essay “On Fairy-stories.”

  Writers whose critical work is deftly leavened by firsthand experience of the highest caliber include Ursula K. Le Guin, L. Sprague de Camp, and Michael Swanwick.

  Single author studies are, of course, extremely numerous and various, but the collection of essays on Supernatural Fiction Writers assembled by Everett F. Bleiler and Richard Bleiler offers more detailed critical summaries than the St. James Guide and therefore offers a useful starting point

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  for in-depth studies of the fantasy writers included therein. Humphrey Carpenter’s book on the Inklings is a good introduction to three of the most widely studied 20th-century fantasy writers, and Roger Lancelyn Green’s Tellers of Tales is a highly readable and remarkably comprehensive survey of the most important children’s fantasy writers.

  The most useful journals dedicated to the field include the IAFA’s Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, the Mythopoeic Society’s Mythlore and Terri Windling’s Journal of the Mythic Arts, the last-named being based on her very useful Endicott Studio website. Other websites that provide rich mines of information for general readers and scholars alike include Locus On-Line—an invaluable source of news and bibliographical information—

  and the extraordinarily elaborate SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages.

  GENERAL REFERENCE WORKS

  Barron, Neil, ed. Fantasy Literature: A Reader’s Guide. New York: Garland, 1990; expanded and revised as Fantasy and Horror: A Critical and Historical Guide to Literature, Illustration, Film, TV, Radio, and the Internet. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow.

  Cawthorn, James, and Michael Moorcock. Fantasy: The 100 Best Books. London: Xanadu, 1988.

  Bleiler, Everett F. The Guide to Supernatural Fiction. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1983.

  Clute, John, and John Grant. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. London: Orbit, 1997.

  Magill, Frank N., ed. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature. 5 vols. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem, 1983.

  Pringle, David. Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels, an English-Language Selection, 1946–1987. London: Grafton, 1988.

  ———, ed. The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy: The Definitive Illustrated Guide. London: Carlton, 1998.

  Tuck, Donald H. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968: A Bibliographic Survey of the Fields of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction through 1968. 3 vols. Chicago: Advent, 1974, 1978, and 1982.

  Tymn, Marshall B., and Mike Ashley, eds. Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1985.

  Tymn, Marshall B., Keneth J. Zahorski, and Robert H. Boyer. Fantasy Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide. New York: Bowker, 1979.

  Waggoner, Diana. The Hills of Faraway: A Guide to Fantasy. New York: Atheneum, 1978.

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  HISTORICAL STUDIES

  Cailliet, Émile. The Themes of Magic in Nineteenth Century French Fiction. Translated by Lorraine Havens. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1932.

  Carter, Lin. Imaginary Worlds: The Art of Fantasy. New York: Ballantine, 1973.

  Chalker, Jack L., and Mark Owings. The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Critical and Bibliographic History. Westmister, Md.: Mirage, 1991; revised edition 1992. Four supplements were issued in 1992–96.

  Filmer, Kath, ed. The Victorian Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society and Belief in the Mythopoeic Literature of the Victorian Age. London: Macmillan, 1991.

  Michalson, Karen. Victorian Fantasy Literature: Literary Battles with Church and Empire. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1990.

  Mucke, Dorothea E. Von. The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003.

  Prickett, Stephen. Victorian Fantasy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979.

  Rottensteiner, Franz. The Fantasy Book: An Illustrated History from Dracula to Tolkien. New York: Collier, 1978.

  Sale, Roger. Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E. B. White. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978.

  Smith, Elton E., and Robert Haas, eds. The Haunted Mind: The Supernatural in Victorian Literature. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 1999.

  Veldman, Meredith. Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain: Romantic Protest, 1945–80. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

  Weiner, Stephen. Faster than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel.

  New York: NBM, 2003.

  AESTHETIC AND THEORETICAL STUDIES

  Alexander, Lloyd. “High Fantasy and Heroic Romance.” Horn Book 47, no. 6 (December 1971): 577–84.

  Apter, T. E. Fantasy Literature: An Approach to Reality. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.

  Armitt, Lucy. Theorizing the Fantastic. New York: Arnold, 1996.

  Attebery, Brian. Strategies of Fantasy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

  Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New York: Knopf, 1976.

  Boyer, Robert, and Kenneth J. Zahorski, eds. Fantasists on Fantasy: A Collection of Critical Reflections. New York: Avon, 1984.

  Brooke-Rose, Christine. A Rhetoric of the Unreal. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

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  Burke, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1757.

  Chesterton, G. K. “The Ethics of Elfland.” In Orthodoxy. London: John Lane, 1909.

  Clark, Beverly Lyon. Reflections of Fantasy: The Mirror Worlds of Carroll, Nabokov, and Pynchon. New York: Peter Lang, 1986.

  Cook, Elizabeth. The Ordinary and the Fabulous: An Introduction to Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales for Teachers and Story-Tellers. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1969.

  Elhin, Don D. The Comedy of the Fantastic: Ecological Perspectives on the Fantasy Novel. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1985.

  Erskine, John. “Magic and Wonder in Literature.” In The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent and Other Essays. 1915.

  Forster, E. M. “Fantasy.” In Aspects of the Novel. London: Edward Arnold, 1927.

  Hume, Kathryn. Fantasy and Mimesis: Resposes to Reality in Western Literature.

  London: Methuen, 1984.

  Hurd, Richard. Letters on Chivalry and Romance. London: A. Millar et al., 1762.

  Irwin, Wiliam Robert. The Game of the Impossible: A Rhetoric of Fantasy. Urbana: Illinois University Press, 1976.

  Jackson, Rosemary. Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion. London: Methuen, 1981.

  Kenward, Jean G. Number and Nightmare: Forms of Fantasy in Contemporary LIterature. Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1975.

  Kroeber, Karl. Romantic Fantasy and Science Fiction. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988.

  Lewis, C. S. An Experiment in Criticism. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1961.

  Little, Edmund. The Fantasts: Studies in J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, Nicolai Gogol, and Kenneth Grahame. Amersham, U.K.: Avebury, 1984.

  MacDonald, George. “The Fantastic Imagination.” In The Light Princess and Other Fairy Tales. Vol. 8
of Works of Fancy and Imagination. 10 vols. London: Strahan, 1871.

  Manlove, C. N. The Impulse of Fantasy Literature. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1983.

  ———. Modern Fantasy: Five Studies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975.

  Martin, Graham Dunstan. An Inquiry into the Purposes of Speculative Fiction: Fantasy and Truth. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 2003.

  Mathews, Richard. Fantasy: The Liberation of Imagination. Boston: Twayne, 1998.

  Mendlesohn, Farah. “Towards a Taxonomy of Fantasy.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 13, no. 2 (2002): 173–87.

  Miéville, Cina. “The New Weird.” Locus 515 (December 2003): 8, 70.

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  Mobley, Jane. “Towards a Definition of Fantasy Fiction.” Extrapolation 15

  (1973–74): 117–28.

  Moorcock, Michael. Wizardry and Wild Romance: A Study of Epic Fantasy. London: Gollancz, 1987.

  Nodier, Charles. “Du Fantastique en littérature.” Revue de Paris 20 (November 1830): 205–26.

  O’Keefe, Deborah. Readers in Wonderland: The Liberating Worlds of Fantasy Fiction from Dorothy to Harry Potter. New York: Continuum, 2003.

  Olsen, Lance. Ellipse of Uncertainty: An Introduction to Postmodern Fantasy.

  New York: Greenwood, 1987.

  Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folk Tale. Translated by Laurence Scott. 2nd revised edition. Louis A. Wagner. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968.

  Rabkin, Eric S. The Fantastic in Literature. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976.

  Reeve, Clara. The Progress of Romance. 2 vols. Colchester, U.K., W. Keymer, 1785.

  Sandner, David, ed. Fantastic Literature. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2004.

  Schlobin, Roger, ed. The Aesthetics of Fantasy Literature and Art. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1982.

  Scholes, Robert. The Fabulators. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967; revised as Fabulation and Metafiction. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979.

  Scholes, Robert, and Robert Kellogg. The Nature of Narrative. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.

  Sherman, Delia. “An Introduction to Interstitial Arts: Life on the Border.” Interstitial Arts, www.endicott-studio.com/IA/IA-intro.html, 2003 [accessed 15 September 2003].

  Spivack, Charlotte. “The Fantastic Imagination in Literature.” Paradoxa 4, no. 9

  (1998): 89–102.

  Swanwick, Michael. The Postmodern Archipelago. San Francisco: Tachyon, 1997.

  Swinfen, Ann. In Defence of Fantasy: A Study of the Genre in English and American Literature Since 1945. London: Routledge, 1984.

  Timmerman, John H. Other Worlds: The Fantasy Genre. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1983.

  Todorov, Tzvetan. The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre.

  Cleveland, Ohio: Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1973.

  Tolkien, J. R. R. “On Fairy-Stories.” In Tree and Leaf. London: Allen and Unwin, 1964. [Revised from an earlier version in Essays Presented to Charles Williams.

  Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1947.]

  Warner, Marina. Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self.

  Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2002.

  ———. No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock. London: Chatto and Windus, 1998.

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  Wilson, Colin. The Strength to Dream: Literature and the Imagination. London: Gollancz, 1961.

  Wolfe, Gray K. Critical Terms for Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Glossary and Guide to Scholarship. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1986.

  Ziolkovski, Theodore. Disenchanted Images: A Literary Iconology. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1977.

  MISCELLANEOUS ANTHOLOGIES AND ESSAY COLLECTIONS

  Burgin, Victor, James Donald, and Cora Kaplan, eds. Formations of Fantasy. London: Methuen, 1986.

  Collings, Michael R., ed. Reflections on the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fourth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1986.

  Collins, Robert A., and Howard D. Pearce, eds. The Scope of the Fantastic. Vol 1: Theory, Tecnique, Major Authors. Vol 2: Culture, Biography, Themes, Children’s Literature. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1985.

  Coyle, William L., ed. Aspects of Fantasy: Selected Essays from the Second International Conference on the Fantastic. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1986.

  Hassler, Donald M., ed. Patterns of the Fantastic. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1983.

  Hokenson, Jan, and Howard Pearce, eds. Forms of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Third International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film.

  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1986.

  Langford, Michelle K., ed. Contours of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Eighth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1990.

  Le Guin, Ursula K. Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places. New York: Grove, 1989.

  ———. The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. New York: Putnam, 1979; revised New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

  ———. The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination. Boston: Shambhala, 2004.

  Lewis, C. S. Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories. New York: Harcourt, 1966.

  ———. On Stories and Other Essays on Literature. New York: Harcourt, 1982.

  Morse, Donald E., ed. The Fantastic in World Literature and the Arts: Selected Essays from the Fifth Annual Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1988.

  Palumbo, Donald, ed. The Spectrum of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Sixth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1988.

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  Pharr, Mary, ed. Fantastic Odysseys: Selected Essays from the Twenty-second International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2003.

  Ruddick, Nicholas, ed. State of the Fantastic: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Fantastic Literature and Film. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1992.

  Saciuk, Olena H., ed. The Shape of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Seventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1990.

  Schweitzer, Darrell, ed. Exploring Fantasy Worlds: Essays on Fantastic Literature.

  San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo, 1985.

  ———. Windows of the Imagination: Essays on Fantastic Literature. San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo, 1998.

  Slusser, George E., and Eric S. Rabkin, eds. Intersections: Fantasy and Science Fiction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.

  Slusser, George E. Eric S. Rabkin, and Robert Scholes, eds. Bridges to Fantasy.

  Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982.

  Smith, Elton E., and Robert Haas, eds. The Haunted Mind: The Supernatural in Victorian Literature. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 1999.

  Travers, P. L. What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol and Story.

  Wellingborough, U.K.: Aquarian, 1989.

  Willard, Nancy. Telling Time: Angels, Ancestors, and Stories. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1993.

  Yolen, Jane. Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood. New York: Philomel, 1981. Little Rock, Ark.: August House, 2000.

  BIBLIOGRAPHIES

  Ashley, Mike. Who’s Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction. New York: St, Martin’s, 1978.

  Bleiler, Everett F. The Checklist of Fantastic Literature: A Bibliography of Fantasy, Weird and Science Fiction Books Published in the English Language.

  Chicago: Shasta, 1948; revised as The Checklist of Science-Fiction and Supernatural Fiction. Glen Rock, N.J.: Firebell, 1978.

  Briney, R. E., and Edward Wood. SF Bibliographies: An Annotated Bibliography of Bibliographic Works on Science Fiction and Fa
ntastic Fiction. Chicago: Advent, 1972.

  Brown, Charles N., and William G. Contento. The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984–1998), combined with William G. Contento, Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections. Oakland, Calif.: Locus, 1999 [CD-ROM].

  Burgess, Michael, and Lisa R. Bartle. Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: Second Edition. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2003.

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  Collins, Robert A., and Robert Latham, eds. Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual, 1988. Westport, Conn.: Meckler, 1988.

  Currey, Lloyd W. Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors: A Bibliography of First Printings of Their Fiction and Selected Nonfiction. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1979.

  Dziemianowicz, Stefan R. The Annotated Guide to Known and Unknown Worlds.

  Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1990.

  Green, Scott E. Contemporary Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry: A Resource Guide and Bibliographical Dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1989.

  Hall, H. W. Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index 1879–1985: An International Author and Subject Index to HIstory and Criticism. 2 vols. Detroit, Mich.: Gale, 1987.

  Herald, Diana Tixier. Fluent in Fantasy: A Guide to Reading Interests. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1999.

  Lynn, Ruth Nadelman. Fantasy for Children and Young Adults: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Bowker, 1979. 2nd ed. 1983. 3rd ed. 1989.

  Miller, Stephen T., and William G. Contento. Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Weird Fiction Magazine Index (1890–1998). Oakland, Calif.: Locus, 1999 [CD-ROM].

  Pflieger, Pat. A Reference Guide to Modern Fantasy for Children. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1984.

  Reginald, Robert. Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature: A Checklist, 1700–1974. 2 vols. Detroit, Mich.: Gale, 1979.