The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: The 19th Century

Front Cover
Brian M. Stableford
Dedalus, Dec 31, 1990 - Literary Criticism - 416 pages
Beginning in 1804 with Nathan Drake's 'Henry Fitzowen', The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy traces the development of the genre through the stories and poems of Coleridge, Keats, Dickens, Disraeli, William Morris, Christina Rossetti, Tennyson and Vernon Lee, until the end of the century and Richard Garnett's 'Alexander the Ratcatcher'. Each text has been chosen to illustrate the development of the various aspects of fantasy in British Literature - the comic, the sentimental, the erotic and the allegorical - and the contribution that these authors made to the emergence of the genre.

Other editions - View all

About the author (1990)

Author Brian M. Stableford was born in Shipley, Yorkshire, U. K. on July 25, 1948. He received an undergraduate degree in biology from the University of York in 1969 and a Ph.D. in sociology in 1979. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1988, he taught sociology at the University of Reading. He has published over 100 books, including science fiction and fantasy works, non-fiction, translations, and learned articles. He has written under the pseudonym of Brian Craig as well as under Brian Stableford and Brian M. Stableford. He has received numerous awards for both fiction and non-fiction including the British Science Fiction Award (1995), the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (1987), the J. Lloyd Eaton Award (1987), the Science Fiction Research Association's (SFRA) Pioneer Award (1996), and the SFRA's Pilgrim Award (1999).

Bibliographic information

QR code for The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy
TitleThe Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: The 19th Century
19th Century
European Literary Fantasy Anthologies Series
EditorBrian M. Stableford
Compiled byBrian M. Stableford
PublisherDedalus, 1990
ISBN0946626782, 9780946626786
Length416 pages
Subjects › 

Literary Criticism / Science Fiction & Fantasy
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan