In Defence of Fantasy: A Study of the Genre in English and American Literature since 1945 - Paperback

by Ann Swinfen (Author)

First published in 1984, Ann Swinfen presents a wide-ranging and comprehensive view of fantasy: what it is, what it tries to achieve, what fundamental differences distinguish it from mainstream realist fiction. She concentrates on the three decades from 1945, when a new generation of writers found that Tolkein had made fantasy 'respectable'.