Description: Introduction Phaedrus (388-366 B.C.E.), Plato The Poetics (33-323 B.C.E.), Aristotle An Apology for Poetry (1595), Philip Sidney "The Fairy Way of Writing" (1712), Joseph Addison Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762), Richard Hurd On The Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror (1773), Anna Laetitia Aikin (Barbauld) Letter (1797), and Biographia Literaria (1817), Samuel Taylor Coleridge On the Supernatural in Poetry (1826), Ann Radcliffe On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition (1827), Walter Scott Frauds on the Fairies (1853), Charles Dickens Fairy Stories (1868), John Ruskin The Fantastic Imagination (1890), George MacDonald Fairy Tales (1908), G. K. Chesterson The Uncanny (1919), Sigmund Freud Introduction to Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927), H. P. Lovecraft Critics (1956), Damon Knight Mythos of Summer: Romance (1957), Northrop Frye Characteristics of Genre and Plot Composition in Dostoevsky's Works (1963) Mikhail Bakhtin Definitions of Territory: Fantasy (1970), Italo Calvino The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (1970), Tzvetan Todorov From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973), Ursula Le Guin Introduction to Modern Fantasy (1975), Colin Manlove The Fantastic and Fantasy (1976), Eric Rabkin On the Evolution of a Word (1979), Stephen Prickett Magical Narratives: The Dialectical Use of Genre Criticism (1981), Fredric Jameson The Encounter with Fantasy (1982), Harold Bloom Literary Fantasy and Ecological Comedy (1985), Don D. Elgin "Fantasy" from Critical Terms for Science Fiction and Fantasy (1986), Gary Wolfe Nameless Things and Thingless Names (1987), Lance Olsen Fantasy as Mode, Genre, Formula (1992), Brian Attebery Phantasmagoria and the Metaphysics of Modern Reverie (1995), Terry Castle "Fantasy" from the Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), John Clute Joseph Addison: First Critic of the Fantastic (2000), David Sander Fabling to the Near Night (2000), Jane Yolen Introduction to Fantasy and Marxism (2002), China Mieville

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