Re-Enchanted : The Rise of Children's Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century /

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"Re-enchanted provides a timely analysis and alternative genealogy for children's fantasy literature, its medieval predecessors, and pop cultural afterlives. With a focus on works by authors including J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Susan Cooper, Kevin Crossley Holland, J.K. Rowling, Junot Dí...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cecire, Maria Sachiko, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Fantasy literature.
Fantasy in literature.
Fantasy fiction.
Fantastic, The, in literature.
Children's literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Science Fiction & Fantasy.
Fantasmes dans la litterature.
Fantastique dans la litterature.
Litterature fantastique > Histoire et critique.
Fantasy fiction > History and criticism.
Fantasy literature > History and criticism.
Children's literature > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. magic in the minor: fantasy, medievalism, and the otherworlds of childhood
  • Relegated to the nursery: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis's antimodernism
  • Alternate canons: Oxford English and the rise of children's fantasy
  • Where are you, Christmas? spaces of childhood, bridges to enchantment
  • White magic: racial innocence and empires of the mind
  • Your inner child of the past: fantasy revisions and the postironic turn
  • Conclusion. magical multiplicity.

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