From the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy.
Hadas Elber-Aviram traces this Urban tradition from Dickens, through the scientific romances of.
Tolkien.
Charting a new history of London Fantasy writing from the Victorian era to the 21st century, Fairy Tales of London explores a powerful tradition of Urban Fantasy distinct from the rural Tales of writers such as J.
R.
R.
From the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy