Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712-1831

by David Sandner

Challenging literary histories that locate the emergence of fantastic literature in the Romantic period, David Sandner shows that tales of wonder and imagination were extremely popular throughout the eighteenth century. Sandner engages contemporary critical definitions and defenses of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century fantastic literature, demonstrating that a century of debate and experimentation preceded the Romantic's interest in the creative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409428621
• ISBN13: 9781409428626
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"