Writing and Fantasy

Acknowledgements General Editors' Preface Writing and Fantasy: An Introduction, CERI SULLIVAN AND BARBARA WHITE PART ONE: EARLY 1. Modern Fantasy and Ancient Dreams, CHRIS PELLING 2. The Fairy Mistress in Medieval Literary Fantasy, CAROLYNE LARRINGTON 3. Haunting the Middle Ages, MARK PHILPOTT 4. Chivalry: Fantasy and Fear, RICHARD W. KAEUPER PART TWO: EARLY MODERN 5. Dreaming of Eve: Edenic Fantasies in John Milton's `Paradise Lost', MARGARET KEAN 6. Jonson, the Antimasque and the Literary Fantastic: `The Vision of Delight', LESLEY E. MICKEL 7. Writing Sexual Fantasy in the English Renaissance: Potency, Power and Poetry, DANIELLE CLARKE 8. Silly Money, Fantastic Credit, CERI SULLIVAN 9. The Politics of Escapism: Fantasies of Travel and Power in Richard Brome's `The Antipodes' and Ben Jonson's `The Alchemist', JULIE SANDERS 10. Travel and Sexual Fantasy in the Early Modern Period, DANIEL CAREY 11. Jenny Voss: the Fantasy of Female Criminality, BARBARA WHITE PART THREE: TWENTIETH CENTURY 12. The Grotesque Utopias of Jeanette Winterson and Monique Wittig, LUCIE ARMITT 13. Fantasy, Childhood, and Literature: in Pursuit of Wonderlands, KARIN LESNIK-OBERSTEIN 14. The Decline and Fall of the Great English Ghost Story, JULIAN THOMPSON 15. `Never Love a Cowboy': Romance Fiction and Fantasy Families, PETER STONELEY 16. Fantasy and the Ideal of the Individual in Twentieth-Century English Domestic Architecture, TIMOTHY MOWL PART FOUR: SELECTED DOCUMENTS 17. Herodotus 7. 12-19 18. Tacitus, `Annals' 16. 1-3 19. Plutarch, `Marius' 45 20. Plutarch, `Sulla' 37 21. From `The Confession of Arnaud Gelis, alias Botheler, of Mas-Saint-Antonin de Pamiers, a heretical convert' 22. `Concerning Henry Nodus who after his death appeared visibly to many people' from Caesarius of Heisterbach, `Dialogus Miraculorum' 23. From Ben Jonson, `The Vision of Delight' (1617) 24. From Henry Neville, `The Isle of Pines' (1668) 25. From `The London Jilt' (1684) Notes on contributors Select bibliography Index