num_pages: 416
description: 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.Contents1 • Introduction (The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: The 19th Century) • essay by Brian Stableford39 • Henry Fitzowen (excerpt) • (1798) • short story by Nathan Drake69 • Kubla Khan • (1816) • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (variant of Kubla Khan or a Vision of Dream)72 • Lamia • (1820) • poem by John Keats93 • The Nymph of the Lurlei Berg—A Tale • (1832) • short story by Edward Bulwer-Lytton108 • Ixion in Heaven • (1833) • novelette by Benjamin Disraeli137 • The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton • (1836) • short story by Charles Dickens150 • A Chronicle of England • [Legendary Lore • 6] • (1840) • short story by John Sterling166 • Erotion • novelette by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (variant of Erotion: A Tale of Ancient Greece 1847) [as by Dinah Maria Mulock]193 • Morte d'Arthur • (1842) • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred Lord Tennyson]203 • The Walking Stick of Destiny • (1932) • short story by Lewis Carroll218 • A Dream • (1856) • short story by William Morris236 • The Woman in the Mirror (Excerpt) • (1858) • short fiction by George MacDonald259 • Goblin Market • (1859) • poem by Christina Rossetti [as by Christina Georgina Rossetti]276 • The Sacristan of St. Botolph • (1866) • novelette by William Gilbert298 • The Dong with the Luminous Nose • (1877) • poem by Edward Lear302 • Sir Jocelyn's Cap • (1885) • novelette by Walter Besant and Walter Herries Pollock352 • The Siren • (1882) • short story by F. Anstey362 • In the Wrong Paradise • (1883) • short story by Andrew Lang377 • The House of Judgement • [Poems in Prose] • short fiction by Oscar Wilde (variant of The House of Judgment 1894)380 • St. Eudæmon and His Orange Tree • (1984) • short story by Vernon Lee (variant of St. Eudæmon and His Orange-Tree 1904)392 • Alexander the Ratcatcher • (1888) • short story by Richard Garnett409 • Appendix (The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: The 19th Century) • essay by Brian Stableford
language: English
title: The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: The 19th Century
titlecomplete: The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: The 19th Century
genres: Fantasy, Fiction
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Dedalus Limited