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List of contents
Introduction by Joe Sanders
Recent Trends in the Contemporary American Fairy Tale by Jack Zipes
De-Radicalizing Pinocchio by Richard Wunderlich
Reinscribing Cinderella: Jane Austen and the Fairy Tale by Norma Rowen
Shoring Fragments: How Beauty and the Beast Adapts Consensus Reality to Shape Its Magical World by Dennis O'Brien
The Corpse in the Dung Cart: The Night-Side of Nature and the Victorian Supernatural Tale by Robert F. Geary
Reader Response and Fantasy Literature: The Uses and Abuses of Interpretation in Queen Victoria's Alice in Wonderland by John Pennington
Gautier, Freud, and the Fantastic: Psychoanalysis avant la lettre? by Nigel E. Smith
Love and Automata: From Hoffman to Lem and From Freud to Kristeva by Miglena Nikolchina
The Company We Keep: Comic Function in M. G. Lewis' The Monk by Gareth M. Euridge
"Worlds of glass": The Heroine's Quest for Identity in Spenser's Fairie Queene and Stephen R. Donaldson's Mirror of Her Dreams by Laurel L. Hendrix
What About Bob? Doubles and Demons in Twin Peaks by Nancy Buffington
The Silent Audience "al stounded" in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Elements of the Fantastic in Medieval Romance by Barbara Kline
Oliphaunts in the Perilous Realm: The Function of Internal Wonder in Fantasy by William Senior
Criminal Artists and Artisans in Mysteries by E. T. A. Hoffman, Dorothy Sayers, Ernesto Sábato, Patrick Suskind, and Thomas Harris by Edith Borchardt
The Craft of the Fantastic in Anatole France's La Révolte des anges by Juliette Gilman
Sally Johnson: Paperworks by Dorothy Joiner
Culture as Spiritual Metaphor in Le Guin's Always Going Home by Sarah Webb
Assuming the Present in SF: Sartre in a New Dimension by Bud Foote
Finding One's Place in the Fantastic: Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising by Valerie Krips
Carter and Blake: The Dangers of Innocence by Mary Y. Hallab
Travels in Hyperreality: Jean Baudrillard's America and J. G. Ballard's Hello America by Veronica Hollinger
The Men Who Walked on the Moon: Images of America in "New Wave" Science Fiction of the 1960s and 1970s by Rob Latham
The Closing of the Final Frontier: Science Fiction after 1960 by Brian Attebery
About the author
JOE SANDERS is Professor of English at Lakeland Community College, Mentor, Ohio. He is author of
Roger Zelazny: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography and
Science Fiction Fandom (Greenwood, 1994). He is president of the Science Fiction Research Association.
