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- catalog abstract ""Writing and Fantasy brings together essays which restore a sense of the fantastic as a political response to cultural opportunities and pressures. It moves on from two conventional fields of discussion: the psychoanalytic, where 'phantasies' are produced by the emergence of the consciousness, and the social, where 'fantasies' are the production of nineteenth-century individualism. A wide variety of sites are investigated including the feminization of the wild west, originary and maternal spaces, highwaywomen, financial credit, and the ideal home. Multiple genres containing fantasy are explored, ranging from ghost stories to feminist utopias." "The new research presented here will be of great interest to academics and students in literature, history and cultural studies departments who are working in the field of the historical development of concepts of fantasy, cultural opposition, and the imbrication of politics and modes of representation."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11303762.
- catalog contributor b11303763.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Writing and Fantasy brings together essays which restore a sense of the fantastic as a political response to cultural opportunities and pressures. It moves on from two conventional fields of discussion: the psychoanalytic, where 'phantasies' are produced by the emergence of the consciousness, and the social, where 'fantasies' are the production of nineteenth-century individualism. A wide variety of sites are investigated including the feminization of the wild west, originary and maternal spaces, highwaywomen, financial credit, and the ideal home. Multiple genres containing fantasy are explored, ranging from ghost stories to feminist utopias." "The new research presented here will be of great interest to academics and students in literature, history and cultural studies departments who are working in the field of the historical development of concepts of fantasy, cultural opposition, and the imbrication of politics and modes of representation."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-287) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction / Ceri Sullivan and Barbara White -- pt. 1. Early. 1. Modern fantasy and ancient dreams / Christopher Pelling. 2. The fairy mistress in medieval literary fantasy / Carolyne Larrington. 3. Haunting the Middle Ages / Mark Philpott. 4. Chivalry: fantasy and fear / Richard W. Kaeuper -- pt. 2. Early Modern. 5. Dreaming of Eve: Edenic fantasies in John Milton's Paradise Lost / Margaret Kean. 6. Jonson, the antimasque and the literary fantastic: The Vision of Delight / Lesley Mickel. 7. Writing sexual fantasy in the English Renaissance: potency, power and poetry / Danielle Clarke. 8. Silly money, fantastic credit / Ceri Sullivan.".
- catalog extent "ix, 299 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0582309115 (CSD)".
- catalog identifier "0582309123 (PPR)".
- catalog isPartOf "Crosscurrents (London, England)".
- catalog isPartOf "Crosscurrents".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Longman,".
- catalog subject "820.9/15 21".
- catalog subject "Fantasy in literature.".
- catalog subject "Fantasy literature, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR149.F35 W75 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Ceri Sullivan and Barbara White -- pt. 1. Early. 1. Modern fantasy and ancient dreams / Christopher Pelling. 2. The fairy mistress in medieval literary fantasy / Carolyne Larrington. 3. Haunting the Middle Ages / Mark Philpott. 4. Chivalry: fantasy and fear / Richard W. Kaeuper -- pt. 2. Early Modern. 5. Dreaming of Eve: Edenic fantasies in John Milton's Paradise Lost / Margaret Kean. 6. Jonson, the antimasque and the literary fantastic: The Vision of Delight / Lesley Mickel. 7. Writing sexual fantasy in the English Renaissance: potency, power and poetry / Danielle Clarke. 8. Silly money, fantastic credit / Ceri Sullivan.".
- catalog title "Writing and fantasy / edited by Ceri Sullivan and Barbara White.".
- catalog type "text".