Victorian Fantasy: 2nd Revised and Expanded Edition

Far from being just children s literature, Victorian fantasy is an art form that flourished in opposition to the repressive social and intellectual conditions of Victorianism. In this fully revised and expanded edition, Stephen Prickett explores the way in which Victorian writers used non-realistic techniques nonsense, dreams, visions, and the creation of other worlds to extend our understanding of this world. In particular, Prickett focuses on six writers (Lear, Carroll, Kingsley, MacDonald, Kipling, and Nesbit), tracing the development of their art form, their influence on each other, and how these writers used fantasy to question the ideology of Victorian culture and society.

Stephen Prickett (Ph.D. Cambridge) is the Director of Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University and is the author or editor of eleven volumes, including Narrative, Religion, and Science; The Bible and Literature; Origins of Narrative; and Words and the Word.