1st Edition
The Ecological Imaginary in Literature and Other Media The Nature of Fantasy
Introduction: Fantastical Meditations
1. Early Fantasy: Green Knights and Faerie Queens
2. Children’s Fantasy: The Mythopoeic Landscapes of Childhood
3. Epic Fantasy: Portals, Paradises, and Waste-lands
4. Urban Fantasy: The Re-Enchantment of the City
5. 21st-Century Fantasy—Fantastic Ecologies in the Capitalocene
6. Mapping the Fantastic: The Ethics of Placiality, Architectonics, and Speculative Cartography
7. Fantasy Sites: Fantasy Texts and Their Real-World Impact
Conclusion: The Le Guin Index and Other Interventions
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Kevan Manwaring, Editor of the British Fantasy Society Journal, is the MA Creative Writing programme leader at Arts University Bournemouth. He is the author of Writing Ecofiction, Desiring Dragons, The Windsmith Elegy, Ballad Tales, and editor of Heavy Weather. A contributor to Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3 (panels on Vikings, Ursula K. Le Guin, and John Cowper Powys), he was the Academic Consultant for BBC 4’s The Secret Life of Books. He is a member of the Climate Fiction Writers League.
