The Victorian fantasists : essays on culture, society, and belief in the mythopoeic fiction of the Victorian Age

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Introduction....Pages 1-12 Count Dracula and the Martians....Pages 13-24 Heroine as Hero: Morris’s Case Against Quest-Romance....Pages 25-44 The Education of Desire: Utopian Fiction and Feminist Fantasy....Pages 45-59 The Realism of Magic in the Fantasy Tradition of William Morris....Pages 60-68 Toward a Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Fantasy Criticism....Pages 69-81 George MacDonald and the Poetics of Realism....Pages 82-89 La Belle Dame Sans Merci: Cultural Criticism and Mythopoeic Vision in Lilith....Pages 90-103 Silent House: MacDonald, Brontë and Silence Within the Soul....Pages 104-132 Christinia Rossetti and the Gender Politics of Fantasy....Pages 133-152 Dream Allegory in Charles Kingsley and Olive Schreiner....Pages 153-170 The Spectre of the Self in Frankenstein and Great Expectations....Pages 171-183 Happy Endings in Hard Times and Granny’s Wonderful Chair....Pages 184-194 Richard Jefferies’ Vision of England....Pages 195-204 Domesticating the Supernatural: Magic in E. Nesbit’s Children’s Books....Pages 205-216 Back Matter....Pages 217-221