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by Stableford, Brian M.


  Schlobin, Roger C. The Literature of Fantasy: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of Modern Fantasy Fiction. New York: Garland, 1979.

  Searles, Baird, Beth Meacham, and Michael Franklin. A Reader’s Guide to Fantasy. New York: Avon, 1982.

  Summers, Montague. A Gothic Bibliography. London: Fortune, 1938.

  Tymn, Marshall B., ed. American Fantasy and Science Fiction: Towards a Bibliography of Works Published in the United States, 1948–1973. West Linn, Ore.: Fax, 1979.

  Tymn, Marshall B., and Roger C. Schlobin. The Year’s Scholarship in Science Fiction and Fantasy 1972–1975. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1979.

  Supplements: 1976–19 (1983); 1980 (1983); 1981 (1984); 1982 (1985). (Further supplements for 1983–88 in Extrapolation and for 1989 in The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. )

  THEMATIC STUDIES

  Allegory

  Clifford, Gay. Transformations of Allegory. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974.

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  Honig, Edwin. Dark Conceit: The Making of Allegory. London: Faber and Faber, 1959.

  Leyburn, Ellen Douglas. Satiric Allegory: Mirror of Man. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1956.

  Quilligan, Maureen. The Language of Allegory: Defining the Genre. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1979.

  Amazons

  Salmonson, Jessica Amanda. The Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity to the Modern Era. New York: Paragon House, 1991.

  Wilde, Lyn Webster. On the Trail of the Women Warriors: The Amazons in Myth and History. New York: St. Martin’s, 2000.

  Animal Fantasy

  Blount, Margaret. Animal Land: The Creatures of Children’s Fiction. New York: Morrow, 1974.

  Apocalyptic Fantasy

  Bull, Malcolm, ed. Apocalypse Theory and the Ends of the World. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 1995.

  Clute, John. The Book of End Times: Grappling with the Millennium. New York: HarperPrism, 1999.

  Dubanski, Ryszard. “The Last Man Theme in Modern Fantasy and SF.” Foundation 16 (May 1979): 26–30.

  Robinson, Douglas. American Apocalypses: The Image of the End of the World in American Literature. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1985.

  Seed, David, ed. Imagining Apocalypse: Studies in Cultural Crisis. London: Macmillan, 2000.

  Wagar, W. Warren. Terminal Visions: The Literature of Last Things. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.

  Arabian Fantasy

  Irwin, Robert. The Arabian Nights: A Companion. London: Allen Lane, 1994.

  Nadaff, Sandra. Arabesque: Narrative Structure and the Aesthetics of Repetition in the 1001 Nights. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1991.

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  Arthurian Fantasy

  Goodman, Jennifer R. The Legend of Arthur in British and American Literature.

  Boston: Twayne, 1988.

  Howey, Ann F. Rewriting the Women of Camelot: Arthurian Popular Fiction and Feminism. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2002.

  Loomis. R. S. Arthurian Legends in Medieval Art. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1938.

  ———, ed. Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1959.

  Lupack, Alan, and Barbara Tepa Lupack. “Introduction: The Forgotten Tradition.”

  Arthurian Literature by Women. New York: Garland, 1999: 3–30.

  Mathis, Arthur E. The King Arthur Myth in Modern American Fiction and Culture.

  Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002.

  Mediavilla, Cindy. Arthurian Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 1999.

  Spivack, Charlotte, and Roberta Lynn Staples, eds. The Company of Camelot: Arthurian Characters in Romance and Fantasy. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1994.

  Starr, Nathan Comfort. King Arthur Today: The Arthurian Legend in English and American Literature, 1901–1953. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1954.

  Thompson, Raymond H. The Return from Avalon: A Study of the Arthurian Legend in Modern Fiction. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1985.

  Atlantean Fantasy

  de Camp, L. Sprague. Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature. New York: Gnome, 1954.

  Celtic Fantasy

  White, Donna R. A Century of Welsh Myth in Children’s Literature. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1999.

  Children’s Fantasy

  Crouch, Marcus. The Nesbit Tradition: The Children’s Novel in England, 1945–1970. London: Benn, 1972.

  Gose, Elliott. Mere Creatures: A Study of Modern Fantasy Tales for Children.

  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.

  Higgins, James E. Beyond Words: Mystical Fancy in Children’s Literature. New York: Teachers College Press, 1970.

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  Hunt, Peter, and Millicent Lenz. Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction. New York: Continuum, 2001.

  Lanes, Selma G. Down the Rabbit Hole: Adventures and Misadventures in the Realm of Children’s Literature. New York: Atheneum, 1971.

  Lochhead, Marion. The Renaissance of Wonder in Children’s Literature. Edinburgh, U.K.: Canongate, 1977.

  Zipes, Jack. Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children’s Literature from Slovely Peter to Harry Potter. London: Routledge, 2001.

  Christian Fantasy

  Manlove, Colin. Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the Present. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992.

  Sammons, Martha C. A Better Country: The Worlds of Religious Fantasy and Science Fiction. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1988.

  Urang, Gunar. Shadows of Heaven: Religion and Fantasy in the Works of C. S.

  Lewis, Charles Williams and J. R. R. Tolkien. Philadelphia: Pilgrim, 1971.

  Ziolkowski, Theodore. Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1972.

  Decadent Fantasy

  Birkett, Jennifer. The Sins of the Fathers: Decadence in France, 1870–1914. London: Quartet, 1986.

  Constable, Liz, Dennis Denisoff, and Matthew Potolsky, eds. Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

  Fletcher, Ian, ed. Decadence and the 1890s. London: Edward Arnold, 1979.

  Pierrot, Jean. The Decadent Imagination, 1880–1900. Translated by Derek Col-man. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

  Stableford, Brian. Glorious Perversity: The Decline and Fall of Literary Decadence. San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo, 1998.

  Symons, Arthur. The Symbolist Movement in Literature. London: Constable, 1899.

  The Devil

  Russell, Jeffrey Burton. Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1986.

  Doppelgängers

  Herdman, John. The Double in Nineteenth Century Fiction: The Shadow Life. New York: St. Martin’s, 1991.

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  Keppler, Carl F. The Literature of the Second Self. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1972.

  Miller, Karl. Doubles: Studies in Literary History. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1985.

  Miyoshi, Masao. The Divided Self: A Perspective on the Literature of the Victorians. New York: New York University Press, 1969.

  Rogers, Ralph. The Double in Literature. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1970.

  Dragons

  Hoult, Janet. Dragons: Their History and Symbolism. Glastonbury, U.K.: Gothic Image, 1987.

  Huxley, Francis. The Dragon: Nature of the Spirit, Spirit of Nature. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1992.

  Petty, Anne C. Dragons in Fantasy: Scaly Villains and Heroes in Modern Fantasy Literature. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Open Road, 2004.

  Shuker, Karl. Dragons: A Natural History. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.

  Erotic Fantasy

  Djikstra, Bram. Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Female Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
/>   Reed, Toni. Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1988.

  Fables

  Newbigging, Thomas. Fables and Fabulists, Ancient and Modern. London: Elliot Stock, 1895.

  Fairies

  Briggs, K. M. The Anatomy of Puck: An Examination of Fairy Beliefs among Shakespeare’s Contemporaries and Successors. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1959.

  ———. The Fairies in Tradition and Literature. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.

  Keightley, Thomas. Fairy Mythology. 2 vols. London: W. H. Ainsworth, 1828.

  Kirk, Robert. The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies. 3rd ed. Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1933. [Written 1691; first published by Andrew Lang, 1893.]

  Paton, Lucy Allen. Studies in the Fairy Mythology of Arthurian Romance. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1903.

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  Purkiss, Diane. Troublesome Things: A History of Fairies and Fairy Stories. London: Allen Lane, 2000.

  Salmonson, Jessica Amanda. Wisewomen and Boggy-boos: a Dictionary of Lesbian Fairy-Lore. Austin, Tex.: Banned Books, 1992.

  Silver, Carole D. Strange and Secret People: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness.

  Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1999.

  Fairy Tales

  Anderson, Graham. Fairytale in the Ancient World. New York: Routledge, 2000.

  Bernheimer, Kate, ed. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales. New York: Anchor, 1998.

  Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New York: Vintage Books, 1975.

  Cashdan, Sheldon. The Witch Must Die: How Fairy Tales Shape Our Lives. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.

  Davidson, Hilda Ellis, and Anna Chaudri. A Companion to the Fairy Tale. Wood-bridge, U.K.: D. S. Brewer, 2003.

  Duffy, Maureen. The Erotic World of Faery. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1972.

  Harries, Elizabeth Wanning. Twice upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001.

  Haughton, Rosemary. Tales from Eternity: The World of Faerie and the Spiritual Search. London: Allen and Unwin, 1973.

  Hazlitt, W. C., ed. Fairy Tales, Legends and Romances Illustrating Shakespeare.

  London: Frank and William Kerslake, 1875.

  Hearne, Betsy. Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale.

  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

  Lüthi, Max. Once upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales. New York: Ungar, 1970.

  Warner, Marina. From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers.

  London: Chatto and Windus, 1994.

  Yearsley, Macleod. The Folklore of Fairy Tale. London: Watts, 1924.

  Zipes, Jack. Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales.

  Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979. Revised and expanded edition. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2003.

  ———. Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization. London: Heinemann, 1983.

  ———. When Dreams Came True: Classic Fairy Tales and Their Tradition. New York: Routledge, 1998.

  ———, ed. The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2000.

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  Far-Futuristic Fantasy

  Broderick, Damien, ed. Earth Is But a Star: Excursions through Science Fiction to the Far Future. Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, 2001.

  Faustian Fantasy

  Butler, Eliza Marian. The Fortunes of Faust. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1952.

  Dédéyan, Charles. Le thème de Faust dans la littérature européenne. 4 vols. Paris: Lettres Modernes, 1954–67.

  Smeed, John Wiliam. Faust in Literature. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.

  Testa, Carlo. Desire and the Devil: Demonic Contracts in French and European Literature. New York: Peter Lang, 1991.

  Folktales

  Aarne, Antti, and Stith Thompson. The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Biography. Folklore Fellows Communication 184. Helsinki: Academia, Scien-tiarum Fenica, 1964.

  Dorson, Richard M. American Folklore. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959.

  ———. Folklore and Fakelore: Essays Towards a Discipline of Folk Studies. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1946.

  Thomspon, Stith. The Folkltale. New York: Dryden, 1946.

  ———. Motif Index of Folk Literature. Revised edition. 6 vols. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1955–58.

  Gothic Fantasy

  Andriano, Joseph. Our Ladies of Darkness: Feminine Daemonology in Male Gothic Fiction. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.

  Becker, Susanne. Gothic Forms of Feminine Fictions. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 1999.

  Hoeveler, Diane Long. Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontës. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.

  MacAndrew, Elizabeth. The Gothic Tradition in Fiction. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.

  Mulvey-Roberts, Marie. The Handbook to Gothic Literature. London: Macmillan, 1998.

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  Punter, David. Gothic Pathologies: The Text, The Body, and the Law. London: Macmillan, 1998.

  ———, ed. A Companion to the Gothic. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 2000.

  Summers, Montague. The Gothic Quest: A History of the Gothic Novel. London: Fortune, 1941.

  Grail Fantasy

  Evans, Sebastian. In Quest of the Holy Graal. London: J. M. Dent, 1898.

  Nutt, Alfred. Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail. London: David Nutt, 1888.

  Owen. D. D. R. The Evolution of the Grail Legend. Edinburgh, U.K.: Oliver and Boyd, 1968.

  Hallucinatory Fantasy

  James, Tony. Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth Century France. Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon, 1995.

  Frazerian Fantasy

  Fraser, Robert, ed. Sir James Frazer and the Literary Imagination. London: Macmillan, 1990.

  Vickers, John P. The Literary Impact of The Golden Bough. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1973.

  Heroic Fantasy

  Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. New York: Pantheon, 1949.

  Galinsky, G. Karl. The Herakles Theme: The Adaptations of the Hero in Literature from Homer to the Twentieth Centuiry. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1972.

  Leeming, David. Mythology: The Voyage of the Hero. New York: Lippincott, 1973.

  Rank, Otto. The Myth of the Birth of the Hero and Other Writings, ed. Philip Fre-und. New York: Random-Vintage, 1959.

  Invisibility

  Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 4, no. 2 (1992) [special issue].

  Lifestyle Fantasy

  Hutton, Ronald. The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft.

  Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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  Magic Realism

  Angulo, Maria-Elena. Magic Realism: Social Context and Discourse. New York: Garland, 1995.

  Bowers, Maggie Ann. Magic(al) Realism. London: Routledge, 2004.

  Chanadfy, Amaryll Beatrice. Magic Realism and the Fantastic: Resolved versus Unresolved Antinomy. New York: Garland, 1985.

  Durix, Jean-Pierre. Mimesis, Genres and Post-Colonial Discourse: Deconstructing Magic Realism. London: Macmillan, 1998.

  Mellen, Joan. Literary Topics. Vol. 5: Magic Realism. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2000.

  Metafiction

  Hutcheon, Linda. Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox. New York: Methuen, 1984.

  Waugh, Patricia. Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction.

  London: Methuen, 1984.

  Monsters

  Andriano, Joseph D. Immo
rtal Monster: The Mythlogical Evolution of the Fantastic Beast in Modern Fiction and Film. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1999.

  Barber, Richard W., and Anne Riches. A Dictionary of Fabulous Beasts. London: Macmillan, 1971.

  Cohen, Daniel. A Modern Look at Monsters. New York: Tower, 1970.

  Costello, Peter. The Magic Zoo: The Natural History of Fabulous Animals. New York: St. Martin’s, 1979.

  Gilmore, David D. Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

  Goetsch, Paul. Monsters in English Literature: From the Romantic Age to the First World War. Bern, Switz.: Peter Lang, 2002.

  Lehner, Ernst, and Johanna Lehner. A Fantastic Bestiary: Beasts and Monsters in Myth and Folklore. New York: Tudor, 1969.

  Nigg, Joseph, ed. The Book of Fabulous Beasts. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1999.

  The Moon

  Montgomery, Scott L. The Moon and the Western Imagination. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999.

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  Myth

  Brockway, Robert. Myth from the Ice Age to Mickey Mouse. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.

  Campbell, Joseph. Transformations of Myth through Time. New York: Harper and Row, 1990.

  Fredericks, Casey. The Future of Eternity: Mythologies of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.

  Shinn, Thelma J. Worlds within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women. Westport, Conn: Greenwood, 1986.

  White, John J. Mythology in the Modern Novel. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.

  Mythopoesis

  Slochower, Harry. Mythopoesis: Patterns in the Literary Classics. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1970.

  Nonsense

  Sewell, Elizabeth. The Field of Nonsense. London: Chatto and Windus, 1952.

  Orphean Fantasy

  Linforth, Ivan M. The Arts of Orpheus. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941.

  Segal, Charles: Orpheus: The Myth of the Poet. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1989.

  The Phoenix

  Blake, N. F.. ed. The Phoenix. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 1964.

  Race and Ethnicity

  Leonard, Elizabeth Anne, ed. Into Darkness Peering: Race and Color in the Fantastic. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1997.

 

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