Drawing and Painting Fantasy Landscapes and Cityscapes

This investigation focuses on C.S. Lewis's and J.R.R. Tolkien's contrasting views of art and imagination, which are key to understanding and interpreting their fantasy works, provi...

The first fantasy-writing textbook to combine a historical genre overview with an anthology and comprehensive craft guide, this book explores the blue prints of one of the most pop...

Fantasy is both old and new. In the ancient past, stories of magic, where supernatural creatures existed, the gods walked the earth and heroes saved their civilizations from the da...

The city is the most distinctive product of modernity, but it is also its most unruly. How do we approach a culture that is both physical and imaginary, that has moulded concrete a...

This book explores medieval cityscapes within the modern urban environment, using place as a catalyst to forge connections between past and present, and investigating timely questi...

Chasing Aristotle’s “probable impossibilities”,Science Fantasy: Critical Explorations in Fiction and Filmscrutinizes science fantasy, a hybrid genre that draws from both science fi...

From the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy. Charting a new history of L...

Four British Fantasistsexplores the work of four of the most successful and influential fantasy writers of the generation who rose to prominence in the "second Golden Age" of child...