Introduction

Kath Filmer

1-7

Science, myth and utopia

Roslynn Haynes

8-22

Wells, the first men in the moon, and Lewis's Ransom trilogy

David Lake

23-33

Visions from the verge

terror and play in G.K. Chesterton's imagination

Elmar Schenkel

34-46

Meaning everything

the image of pan at the turn of the century

Robert Dingley

47-59

The eternal feminine reclaimed

Ford Madox Ford's medieval fantasies

Virginia C. Kenny

60-70

Viewing "the immense panorama or futility and anarchy that is contemporary history" in the first six novels of Charles Williams

Marlène Mckinley

71-91

Tolkien, epic traditions, and Golden age myths

Charles A. Huttar

92-107

Atseiniau O ddyddiau gynt

Welsh myth and culture in contemporary fantasy

Kath Filmer

108-120

Wordsworth in space

the fantasies of William S. Burroughs

Duncan Wu

121-134

"Escape!"

that dirty word in modern fantasy

Norman Talbot

135-147

"In the demythologising business"

Angela Carter's the infernal desire machines of dr Hoffmann (1972)

Colin Manlove

148-160

The handmaid's tale

narrative voice and the primacy of the tale

Barbara Garlick

161-171

Hammering the demons

sword, sorcery and contemporary society

John Strugnell

172-182

Centring the margins

postmodernism and fantasy

Stephen Prickett

183-192

Dreaming each other

the discourse of fantasy in contemporary news media

Kath Filmer

193-206