Sovereign fantasies : Arthurian romance and the making of Britain / by Ingham, Patricia

Sovereign fantasies : Arthurian romance and the making of Britain / by Ingham, Patricia Clare, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Introduction; PART I: THE MATTER OF BRITAIN; 1 Arthurian Imagination and the ""Makyng"" of History; 2 Arthurian Futurism and British Destiny; PART II: ROMANCING THE THRONE; 3 Disavowing Romance: Colonial Loss and Stories of the Past; 4 ""In Contrayez Straunge"": Sovereign Rivals, Fantasies of Gender, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; 5 Dangerous Liaisons: Disloyalty, Adultery, and the Tragedy of Romance; PART III: INSULAR LOSSES; 6 Military Intimacies: The Pleasures and Pains of Conquest; 7 ""Necessary"" Losses: Royal Death and English Remembrance; Afterword: Lost Books.…”
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Victorian fantasy literature : literary battles with church and empire / by Michalson, Karen

Subjects: “…Fantasy literature, English History and criticism.…”

Fantasy surgery, 1880-1930 : with special reference to Sir William Arbuthnot Lane / by Dally, Ann

Table of Contents: “…Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Doubtful Diseases and Fantasy Surgery -- Surgery and the Nineteenth Century -- Dropped Organs -- Autointoxication -- Young Arbuthnot Lane -- Chronic Intestinal Stasis: Surgery for Constipation -- Metchnikoff -- Success and Opposition: 1903-13 -- Alimentary Toxaemia: The Great Debate -- Aftermath -- Follow-up -- Lane in Old Age -- Conclusions -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Appendix.…”
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Fantasy, forgery, and the Byron legend / by Soderholm, James, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on Citations; Introduction: The Grammar of Glamour; 1 Trial Fantasies: Byron and Elizabeth Pigot; 2 Byron's Miniature Writ Large: Lady Caroline Lamb; 3 The Divining of Byron: Annabella Milbanke; 4 Unwriting His Body: Teresa Guiccioli's Transubstantiation of Byron; 5 The Art of Conversation: Lady Marguerite Blessington; Appendix A: Transcription of French Portions from a Seance with Byron; Appendix B: The Byron Legend in an Age of Artificial Intelligence; Notes; Selected Bibliography…”
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Fantasy, forgery, and the Byron legend / by Soderholm, James, 1957-

Race and popular fantasy literature : habits of whiteness / by Young, Helen

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Re-thinking genre, thinking about race -- Founding fantasy: J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard -- Forming habits: derivation, imitation, and adaptation -- The real middle ages: gritty fantasy -- Orcs and otherness: monsters on page and screen -- Popular culture postcolonialism -- Relocating roots: urban fantasy -- Breaking habits and digital communication.…”

Fantasy, forgery, and the Byron legend / by Soderholm, James, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on Citations; Introduction: The Grammar of Glamour; 1 Trial Fantasies: Byron and Elizabeth Pigot; 2 Byron's Miniature Writ Large: Lady Caroline Lamb; 3 The Divining of Byron: Annabella Milbanke; 4 Unwriting His Body: Teresa Guiccioli's Transubstantiation of Byron; 5 The Art of Conversation: Lady Marguerite Blessington; Appendix A: Transcription of French Portions from a Seance with Byron; Appendix B: The Byron Legend in an Age of Artificial Intelligence; Notes; Selected Bibliography.…”
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British socialists : the journey from fantasy to politics / by Pierson, Stanley, 1925-

Dream Life of Citizens : Late Victorian Novels and the Fantasy of the State. by Aslami, Zarena

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Imperial masochism : British fiction, fantasy, and social class / by Kucich, John

Imperial masochism : British fiction, fantasy, and social class / by Kucich, John

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A discovery of the great fantasie, or, Phantasticall conceitednesse. : That is to say, of the antichristian blindnes of those, that out of a meer false imagination and phantasticall conceitednesse, do hold themselves to be Christians, sprituall divines, deputies and messengers or spokes-men of Christ, and take upon them, as mediatours, to save others, whom they call the secular lay-men; therewithall, reviling, traducing, condemning, excommunicating, persecuting, exiling, and putting to death the true children of God, for not yeelding unto this phantasie of theirs, conceiving, that therein they do God great service, when they busie themselves in weeding the ground thus, according to their phantasies, and endeavouring to save the angels a labour against the time of the harvest....

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A Discovery of the great fantasie, or, Phantasticall conceitednesse : that is to say, of the antichristian blindnes of those that out of a meer false imagination and phantasticall conceitednesse do hold themselves to be Christians, sprituall divines, deputies and messengers or spokes-men of Christ : and take upon them as mediatours to save others whom they call the secular lay-men : therewithal reviling, traducing, condemning, excomminicating, persecuting, exiling, and putting to death the true children of God for not yeelding unto this phantasie of theirs : conceiving that therein they do God great service when they busie themselves in weeding the ground thus, according to their phantasies : and together with a discovery of the great arch-whore and her paramours or lovers, whereof the spirit of God beareth witnesse.

“…Discovery of the great fantasie.…”
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A discovery of the great fantasie, or, Phantasticall conceitednesse. : That is to say, of the antichristian blindnes of those, that out of a meer false imagination and phantasticall conceitednesse, do hold themselves to be Christians, sprituall divines, deputies and messengers or spokes-men of Christ, and take upon them, as mediatours, to save others, whom they call the secular lay-men; therewithall, reviling, traducing, condemning, excommunicating, persecuting, exiling, and putting to death the true children of God, for not yeelding unto this phantasie of theirs, conceiving, that therein they do God great service, when they busie themselves in weeding the ground thus, according to their phantasies, and endeavouring to save the angels a labour against the time of the harvest....

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The dream life of citizens : late Victorian novels and the fantasy of the state / by Aslami, Zarena

Table of Contents: “…The space of optimism : State fantasy and the case of Gissing's The odd women --…”
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England's Elizabeth : an afterlife in fame and fantasy / by Dobson, Michael

England's Elizabeth : an afterlife in fame and fantasy / by Dobson, Michael, 1960-

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Breaking the angelic image : woman power in Victorian children's fantasy / by Honig, Edith Lazaros

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The fantastic sublime : romanticism and transcendence in nineteenth-century children's fantasy literature / by Sandner, David

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