Imagining the Celtic past in modern fantasy. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Dimitra Fimi and Alastair J.P. Sims.
• Editors: Fimi, Dimitra; Sims, Alastair J. P
• Contents: Introduction, Dr Dimitra Fimi (University of Glasgow, UK)Part 1: Celticity as Fantastic Intrusion1. Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: The Celtic Fairy Realm in Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Dr K. A. Laity (College of Saint Rose, USA)2. The Evolution of Alan Garner's Celticity in Boneland, Gwendolen Grant (Independent Scholar)3. Woman as Goddess in the Irish Fantasies of Jodi McIsaac, Kris Swank (Pima Community College, USA)Part 2: Celtic Fantasy Worlds and Heroes4. The Heroic Biographies Of Cú Chulainn and Connavar in the Rigante Series, Alistair Sims (Independent Scholar)5. Classical Ethnography and the World(s) of the Rigante, Anthony Smart (York St John University, UK) 6. Celts in Spaaaaace!, Cheryl Morgan (Independent Scholar) Part 3: Celtic Fantasy Beyond the Anglophone7. From Vertigen to Frontier: The Fate of the Sidhes in Léa Silhol's Fiction, Viviane Bergue (Independent scholar) 8. 'Chaidh e nas doimhne agus nas doimhne ann an seann theacsaichean': Gaelic history and legend in An Sgoil Dhubh by Iain F. MacLeòid, Duncan Sneddon (University of Edinburgh, UK) Part 4: Fantastic Perceptions of Celticity9. The Celtic Tarot in Speculative Fiction, Juliette Wood (Cardiff University, UK)10. Celtic Appropriation in Twenty-First-Century Fantasy Fan Perceptions, Angela R. Cox (Ball State University, USA)Conclusion, Dimitra Fimi and Alistair SimsBiographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (232 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 809.38766; Fantasy fiction -- Celtic influences; Fantasy fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Fantasy fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350350014; 9781350350007
• Related ISBNs: 9781350349995
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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