Title: The fantasy literature of England
First published: 1999
Description: Discusses writers such as Edwin Abbott, Peter Ackroyd, Richard Adams, Brian Aldiss, F. Anstey, J.G. Ballard, Clive Barker, J.M. Barrie, William Beckford, Max Beerbohm, Algernon Blackwood, William Blake, Robert Browning, John Bunyan, Byron, Italo Calvino, Lewis Carroll, Angela Carter, Chaucer, G.K. Chesterton, Coleridge, John Collier, Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Dunsany, George du Maurier, E.R. Eddison, T.S. Eliot, John Fowles, Leon Garfield, Alan Garner, David Garnett, Mary Gentle, William Golding, Kenneth Grahame, H. Rider Haggard, Michael John Harrison, W.H. Hodgson, Robert Holdstock, Laurence Housman, W.H. Hudson, Robert Irwin, Margaret Irwin, Henry James, Richard Jefferies, Douglas Jerrold, Diana Wynne Jones, Anna Kavan, Charles Kingsley, Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Lang, D.H. Lawrence, Tanith Lee, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Doris Lessing, C.S. Lewis, Matthew Lewis, Wyndham Lewis, David Lindsay, Penelope Lively, Hugh Lofting, Edward Bulwer Lytton, George MacDonald, Arthur Machen, Christopher Marlowe, John Masefield, Guy de Maupassant, William Mayne, George Meredith, A.A. Milne, Milton, Mrs. Mary Louisa Molesworth, Michael Moorcock, Kenneth Morris, William Morris, Iris Murdoch, Edith Nesbit, George Orwell, Mervyn Peake, Alexander Pope, John Cowper Powys, T.F. Powys, Terry Pratchett, Christopher Priest, Phillip Pullman, Rabelais, Ann Radcliffe, Herbert Read, Christina Rossetti, Salman Rushdie, John Ruskin, Shakespeare, Shelley, Sir Philip Sidney, Muriel Spark, Edmund Spenser, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, D.M. Thomas, J.R.R. Tolkien, Evelyn Underhill, Horace Walpole, Ian Watson, H.G. Wells, Robert Westall, John Whitbourn, T.H. White, Oscar Wilde, Charles Williams, Jeanette Winterson, Wordsworth, S. Fowler Wright, Yeats, and others.
Subjects: English Fantasy literature, Fantasy literature, English, History and criticism, National characteristics, English, in literature, Fantasy fiction, history and criticism, National characteristics in literature
LC classification: PR149.F35 M36 1999