The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: The 19th Century

Brian M. Stableford, Nathan Drake, Lewis Carroll, William Morris, George MacDonald, Christina Rossetti, Edward Lear, Walter Besant, Walter Herries Pollock, F. Anstey, Andrew Lang, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Richard Garnett, John Keats, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Dickens, John Sterling, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Alfred Tennyson


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The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: The 19th Century by Brian M. Stableford, Nathan Drake, Lewis Carroll, William Morris, George MacDonald, Christina Rossetti, Edward Lear, Walter Besant, Walter Herries Pollock, F. Anstey, Andrew Lang, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Richard Garnett, John Keats, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Dickens, John Sterling, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Alfred Tennyson
Beginning in 1804 with Nathan Drake's Henry Fitzowen, The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy traces the development of the genre through the stories and poems of Coleridge, Keats, Dickens, Disraeli, William Morris, Christina Rossetti, Tennyson and Vernon Lee, until the end of the century and Richard Garnett's Alexander the Ratcatcher.

Contents

1 • Introduction (The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: The 19th Century) • essay by Brian Stableford
39 • Henry Fitzowen (excerpt) • (1798) • short story by Nathan Drake
69 • Kubla Khan • (1816) • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (variant of Kubla Khan or a Vision of Dream)
72 • Lamia • (1820) • poem by John Keats
93 • The Nymph of the Lurlei Berg—A Tale • (1832) • short story by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
108 • Ixion in Heaven • (1833) • novelette by Benjamin Disraeli
137 • The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton • (1836) • short story by Charles Dickens
150 • A Chronicle of England • [Legendary Lore • 6] • (1840) • short story by John Sterling
166 • Erotion • novelette by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (variant of Erotion: A Tale of Ancient Greece 1847) [as by Dinah Maria Mulock]
193 • Morte d'Arthur • (1842) • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred Lord Tennyson]
203 • The Walking Stick of Destiny • (1932) • short story by Lewis Carroll
218 • A Dream • (1856) • short story by William Morris
236 • The Woman in the Mirror (Excerpt) • (1858) • short fiction by George MacDonald
259 • Goblin Market • (1859) • poem by Christina Rossetti [as by Christina Georgina Rossetti]
276 • The Sacristan of St. Botolph • (1866) • novelette by William Gilbert
298 • The Dong with the Luminous Nose • (1877) • poem by Edward Lear
302 • Sir Jocelyn's Cap • (1885) • novelette by Walter Besant and Walter Herries Pollock
352 • The Siren • (1882) • short story by F. Anstey
362 • In the Wrong Paradise • (1883) • short story by Andrew Lang
377 • The House of Judgement • [Poems in Prose] • short fiction by Oscar Wilde (variant of The House of Judgment 1894)
380 • St. Eudæmon and His Orange Tree • (1984) • short story by Vernon Lee (variant of St. Eudæmon and His Orange-Tree 1904)
392 • Alexander the Ratcatcher • (1888) • short story by Richard Garnett
409 • Appendix (The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: The 19th Century) • essay by Brian Stableford

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