PHANTASMION.
by Coleridge Sara
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
First edition. Limited to 250 copies. This is the major contribution by Samuel Coleridge's daughter and is a rare precursor of the journey-to-faeryland that characterized the structure and content of the quest motif in nineteenth and twentieth century fantastic literature. Besides the intricacies of plot, character, and genealogy, PHANTASMION has a theme in common with Tolkien's works: the virtues of pastoralism and the disruptive force of industrialism." - Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1238-40. It appears to be modeled on Edmund Spenser's THE FAERIE QUEEN (1590; 1596), the "first fairy tale novel written in English." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 210. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-28. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 391. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 55. Bleiler (1978), p. 46. Reginald 03174. Wolff 1316. Keynes, p. 60.
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- Bookseller
- BATTLEDORE LTD (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Fantasy1837
- Title
- PHANTASMION.
- Author
- Coleridge Sara
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's green cloth with original printed paper label on upper spine (soiled, edges scuffed), small section cut out at top o
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Pickering
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1837
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fantasy, tolkien, fairies, pickering
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