The A to Z of Fantasy Literature

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by Stableford, Brian M.

Religious Fantasy

  Reilly, Robert, ed. The Transcendent Adventure: Studies of Religion in Science Fiction/Fantasy. Wetport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1984.

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  Romance

  Frye, Northrop. The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976.

  Romanticism

  Abrams, Meyer Howard. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1953.

  ———. Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature. New York: Norton, 1971.

  Bush, Douglas. Mythology and the Romantic Tradition in English Poetry. New York: Pageant, 1957.

  Praz, Mario. The Romantic Agony. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1933.

  Railo, Eino. The Haunted Castle: A Study of the Elements of English Romanticism.

  London: Routledge, 1927.

  Siebers, Tobin. The Romantic Fantastic. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984.

  Willoughby, L. A. The Romantic Movement in Germany. New York: Russell and Russell, 1966.

  Satire

  Hall, Ernest J. The Satirical Element in the American Novel. New York: Haskell House, 1970.

  Hodgart, Matthew. Satire. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1969.

  Knight, Charles A. The Literature of Satire. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

  Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Encyclopedia of Satirical Literature. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio Press, 1996.

  Sexuality

  Fendler, Susan, and Ulrike Horstmann, eds. Images of Masculinity in Fantasy Fiction. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 2003.

  Frederick, Candice, and Sam McBride. Women among the Inklings: Gender, C. S.

  Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and Charles Williams. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2002.

  Garber, Eric, and Lin Paleo. Uranian Worlds: A Reader’s Guide to Alternative Sexuality in Science Fiction and Fantasy. 2nd ed. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1990.

  Merrick, Helen, and Tess Williams, eds. Women of Other Worlds: Excursions through Science Fiction and Fantasy. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 1999.

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  Notkin, Debbie, and the Secret Feminist Cabal, eds. Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Cambridge, Mass.: Edge-wood, 1998.

  Palumbo, Donald. ed. Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature. New York: Greenwood, 1986.

  Weedman, Jane, ed. Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1985.

  Spiritualist Fantasy

  Kerr, Howard. Mediums and Spirit-Rappers and Roaring Radicals: Spiritualism in American Literature, 1850–1900. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1972.

  Symbolism

  Feidelson, Charles, Jr. Symbolism and American Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953.

  Tindall, William York. The Literary Symbol. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1955.

  The Templars

  Partner, Peter. The Murdered Magicians: The Templars and Their Myth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

  Timeslip Fantasy

  Westfahl, Gary, George Slusser, and David Leiby. Worlds Enough and Time: Explorations of Time in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2002.

  Travelers’ Tales

  Adams, H. C. Travellers’Tales: A Book of Marvels. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927.

  Unicorns

  Beer, Rüdiger Robert. Unicorn: Myth and Reality. New York: Van Nostrand Rein-hold, 1972.

  Hathaway, Nancy. The Unicorn. New York: Viking, 1980.

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  Vampires

  Auerbach, Nina. Our Vampires, Ourselves. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

  Gelder, Ken. Reading the Vampire. New York: Routledge, 1994.

  Gordon, Joan, and Veronica Hollinger, eds. Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.

  MacDonald, Beth E. The Vampire as Numinous Experience: Spiritual Journeys with the Undead in British and American Literature. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2004.

  Senf, Carol A. The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century English Literature. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988.

  The Wandering Jew

  Anderson, George K. The Legend of the Wandering Jew. Providence, R.I.: Brown University Press, 1965.

  Conway, Moncure Daniel. The Wandering Jew. London: Chatto and Windus, 1881.

  Witchcraft

  Briggs, K. M. Pale Hecate’s Team: An Examination of the Beliefs on Witchcraft and Magic among Shakespeare’s Contemporaries and His Immediate Successors. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962.

  NATIONS AND REGIONS

  Australia

  Collins, Paul, Steven Paulsen, and Sean McMullen, eds. The MUP Encyclopedia of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1998.

  Canada

  Ketterer, David. Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992,

  England

  Kincaid, Paul. A Very British Genre: A Short History of British Fantasy and Science Fiction. Folkestone, U.K.: British Science Fiction Association, 1995.

  Manlove, Colin. The Fantasy Literature of England. London: Macmillan, 1999.

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  France

  Lofficier, Jean-Marc and Randy. French Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Pulp Fiction: A Guide to Cinema, Television, Radio, Animation, Comic Books and Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2000.

  Ireland

  Morse, Donald E., and Csilla Bertha, eds. More Real than Reality: The Fantastic in Irish Literature and the Arts. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1992.

  Latin America

  Tavares, Braulio. Fantastic, Fantasy and Science Fiction Literature Catalog. Rio de Janeiro: Biblioteca Nacional, 1993.

  Portugal

  Holstein, Alvaro de Sousa, and José Manuel Morais. Bibliografia da Ficção Cientifica e Fantasia Portuguesa. Lisbon: Black Sun, 1993.

  Scotland

  Manlove, Colin. Scottish Fantasy Literature: A Critical Survey. Edinburgh, U.K.: Canongate, 1994.

  The United States

  Attebery, Brian. The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature, from Irving to Le Guin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.

  STUDIES OF INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS

  Collections

  Bleiler, Everett F. Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror. 2 vols. New York: Scribner’s, 1985. Revised and expanded edition. Richard Bleiler as Supernatural Ficton Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror. 2. vols, 2002.

  Carpenter, Humphrey. The Inklings. London: Allen and Unwin, 1978.

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  de Camp, L. Sprague. Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers: The Makers of Heroic Fantasy. Sauk City, Wis.: Arkham House, 1976.

  Green, Roger Lancelyn. Tellers of Tales: Children’s Books and Their Authors from 1800–1968. Norwich, U.K.: Kaye and Ward, 1969 [first ed. 1946].

  Nicholls, Stan. Wordsmiths of Wonder: Fifty Interviews with Writers of the Fantastic. London: Orbit, 1993.

  Pringle, David, ed. The St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers. Detroit, Mich.: St.

  James, 1996.

  ———, ed. The St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers. Detroit, Mich.: St. James, 1998.

  Spivack, Charlotte. Merlin’s Daughters: Contemporary Women Writers of Fantasy. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1987.

  Van Belkom, Edo. Northern Dreamers: Interviews with Famous Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Writers. Ontario, Can.: Quarry, 1998.

  Wintle, Justin, and Emma Fisher. The Pied Pipers: Interviews with the Influential Creators of Children’s Literature. New York: Paddington, 1974.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Peck, John. “The Novels of Peter Ackroyd.
” English Studies 75 (September 1994): 442–52.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Jacobs, James S., and Michael O. Tunnell. Lloyd Alexander: A Bio-Bibliography.

  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1991.

  May, Jill P. Lloyd Alexander. Boston: Twayne, 1991.

  Tunnell, Michael O. The Prydain Companion. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1989.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Bresdorf, Elias. Hans Christian Andersen: The Story of His Life and Works. New York: Noonday, 1975.

  Grønbech, Bo. Hans Christian Andersen. Boston: Twayne, 1980.

  Piers Anthony

  Collings, Michael R. Piers Anthony. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1983.

  Stephensen-Payne, Phil, and Gordon Benson Jr. Piers Anthony. Galactic Central Bibliographies for the Avid Reader, vol. 35. Leeds, Yorkshire, U.K.: Galactic Central, 1990.

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  Apuleius

  Haight, Elizabeth. Apuleius and His Influence. New York: Cooper Square, 1963.

  Tatum, James. Apuleius and the Golden Ass. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1979.

  Walsh, P. G. The Golden Ass. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

  Paul Auster

  Barone, Dennis, ed. Beyond the Red Notebook: Essays on Paul Auster. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.

  Varvogli, Aliki. The World That Is the Book: Paul Auster’s Fiction. Liverpool, U.K.: Liverpool University Press, 2001.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Bangs, Francis Hyde. John Kendrick Bangs: Humorist of the Nineties. New York: Knopf, 1941.

  Clive Barker

  Barbieri, Suzanne J. Clive Barker: Mythmaker for the Milennium. Stockport, U.K.: British Fantasy Society, 1994.

  Winter, Douglas E. Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic. London: HarperCollins, 2001.

  J. M. Barrie

  Birkin, Andrew. J. M. Barrie and the Lost Boys. London: Constable, 1979.

  Darton, F. J. Harvey. J. M. Barrie. London: Nisbet, 1929.

  Green, Roger Lancelyn. Fifty Years of Peter Pan. London: Peter Davies, 1954.

  ———. J. M. Barrie. London: Bodley Head, 1960.

  Ormond, Leonee. J. M. Barrie. Edinburgh, U.K.: Scottish Academic, 1987.

  Rose, Jacqueline. The Case of Peter Pan; or, The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction. London: Macmillan, 1984.

  John Barth

  Fogel, Stan, and Gordon Slethaug. Understanding John Barth. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990.

  Harris, Charles B. Passionate Virtuosity: The Fiction of John Barth. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983.

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  Joseph, Gerhard. John Barth. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1970.

  Tharpe, Jac. John Barth: The Comic Sublimity of Paradox. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1974.

  Waldmeir, Joseph J., ed. Critical Essays on John Barth. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980.

  Ziegler, Heidi. John Barth. London: Methuen, 1987.

  L. Frank Baum

  Dighe, Ranjit, ed. The Historian’s Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum’s Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2002.

  Hearn, Michael Patrick, ed. The Wizard of Oz. New York: Schocken, 1983.

  Moore, Raylyn. Wonderful Wizard, Marvelous Land. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1974.

  Nye, Russel, and Martin Gardner, eds. The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1957.

  Rogers, Katharine M. L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz. New York: St. Martin’s, 2002.

  Sale, Roger. “L. Frank Baum and Oz.” Hudson Review 25, no. 4 (Winter 1972–73): 571–92.

  Wagenknecht, Edward. Utopia Americana. Seattle: University of Washington Book Store, 1929.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Zahorski, Kenneth J. Peter Beagle. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1988.

  Thomas Berger

  Landon, Brooks. Thomas Berger. Boston: Twayne, 1989.

  William Blake

  Frye, Northrop. Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1947.

  Jorges Luis Borges

  Barrenechea, Ana Maria. Borges the Labyrinth-Maker. New York: New York University Press, 1965 [original publication 1957].

  Bell-Villada, Gene H. Borges and His Fiction: A Guide to His Mind and Art.

  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981.

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  Bloom, Harold, ed. Jorge Luis Borges. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.

  Foster, David William. Jorge Luis Borges: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1984.

  McMurray, George R. Jorge Luis Borges. New York: Ungar, 1980.

  Rodriguez Monegal, Emir. Jorges Luis Borges: A Literary Biography. New York: Dutton, 1978.

  Stabb, Martin S. Jorge Luis Borges. Boston: Twayne, 1970.

  Wheelock, Carter. The Mythmaker: A Study of Motif and Symbol in the Short Stories of Jorge Luis Borges. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969.

  Lucy M. Boston

  Rose, Jasper A. Lucy Boston. London: Bodley Head, 1965.

  Ray Bradbury

  De Koster, Katie, ed., Readings on “Fahrenheit 451.” San Diego, Calif.: Green-haven, 2000.

  Johnson, Wayne L. Ray Bradbury. New York: Ungar, 1980.

  Mogen, David. Ray Bradbury. Boston: Twayne, 1986.

  Olander, Joseph P., and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Ray Bradbury. New York: Taplinger, 1980.

  Reid, Robin Anne. Ray Bradbury: A Critical Companion. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2000.

  Slusser, George Edgar. The Bradbury Chronicles. San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo, 1977.

  Touponce, William F. Ray Bradbury. Mercer Island, Wash: Starmont House, 1989.

  ———. Ray Bradbury and the Poetics of Reverie: Fantasy, Science Fiction and the Reader. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research, 1984.

  K. M. Briggs

  Davidson, H. Ellis. Katharine Briggs: Story-Teller. Cambridge, U.K.: Lutterworth, 1986.

  Steven Brust

  Chandler, Wayne A. “The Magic(s) of Steven Brust.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 9, no. 2 (1998): 157–65.

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  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Holtsmark, Erling B. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Boston: Twayne, 1986.

  Kudlay, Robert R., and Joan Leiby. Burroughs’ Science Fiction. Geneseo, N.Y.: School of Library and Information Science, 1973.

  Lupoff, Richard A. Barsoom: Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Martian Vision. Baltimore: Mirage, 1976.

  Mullen, Richard D., the Elder. “Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Fate Worse Than Death.” Riverside Quarterly 4, no. 3 (1970): 186–91.

  Roy, John Flint. A Guide to Barsoom. New York: Ballantine, 1976.

  Lord Byron

  Nicholson, Mervyn. “Disaster Fantasies: Byron as a Poet of the Fantastic.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 2, no. 4 (1990): 110–32.

  James Branch Cabell

  Davis, Joe Lee. James Branch Cabell. Boston: Twayne, 1962.

  Duke, Maurice. James Branch Cabell: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1979.

  Godshalk, William Leigh. In Quest of Cabell: Five Exploratory Essays. New York: Revisionist, 1976.

  Inge, M. Thomas, and Edgar F. MacDonald, eds. James Branch Cabell: Centenary Essays. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983.

  Mencken, H. L. James Branch Cabell: Three Essays in Criticism. New York: McBride, 1932.

  Morley-Mower, Geoffrey. Cabell under Fire: Four Essays. New York: Revisionist, 1975.

  Riemer, James D. From Satire to Subversion: The Fantasies of James Branch Cabell. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1989.

  Tarrant, Desmond. Cabell: The Dream and the Reality. Norman: University of Ok-lahoma Press, 1967.

  Wells, Arvin. Jesting Moses: A Study in Cabellian Comedy. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1962.

  Italo Calvino

  Cannon
, JoAnn. Italo Calvino: Writer and Critic. Ravenna, Italy: Longo, 1981.

  Carter, Albert Howard, III. Italo Calvino: Metamorphoses of Fantasy. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research, 1986.

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  Weiss, Bruno. Understanding Calvino. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993.

  Orson Scott Card

  Collings, Michael. In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization, and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card. New York: Greenwood, 1990.

  ———. “Orson Scott Card: An Approach to Mythopoeic Literature.” Mythlore 21

  (Summer 1996): 36–50.

  ———. Storyteller: The Official Orson Scott Card Bibliography and Guide. Wood-stock, Ga.: Overlook Connection, 2001.

  Lewis Carroll

  Fordyce, Rachel. Lewis Carroll: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1988.

  Gardner, Martin. The Annotated Alice: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. New York: Potter, 1960.

  Guiliano, Edward. Lewis Carroll: An Annotated International Bibliography 1960–77. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980.

  Hudson, Derek. Lewis Carroll. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1972.

  Jones, Jo Elwyn, and J. Francis Gladstone. The Alice Companion: A Guide to Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

  Kelly, Richard Michael. Lewis Carroll. Boston: Twayne, 1977.

  Phillips, Robert. ed. Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll’s Dreamchild as Seen through the Critics’ Looking-Glasses 1865–1971. London: Gollancz, 1972.

  Reichertz, Ronald. The Making of the Alice Books: Lewis Carroll’s Uses of Earlier Children’s Fiction. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2000.

  Sigler, Carolyn, ed. Alternative Alices. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1998.

  Angela Carter

  Bristow, Joseph, and Trev Lynn Broughton, eds. The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter: Fiction, Femininity, Feminism. London: Longman, 1997.

  Day, Aidan. Angela Carter: The Rational Glass. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 1998.

  Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter: Writing from the Front Line. Edinburgh, U.K.: Edinburgh University Press, 1997.

  Jordan, Elaine. “Enthralment: Angela Carter’s Speculative Fictions.” In Plotting Change: Contemporary Women’s Fiction. Edited by Linda Anderson, London: Edward Arnold, 1990: pp. 19–40.

  Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. New York: St. Martin’s, 1998.

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  Sage, Lorna. Angela Carter. Plymouth, U.K.: Northcote House, 1994.

 

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