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Japanese Dreams: Fantasies, Fictions & Fairytales

Monday, July 12, 2010

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Product DescriptionJapanese Dreams takes the reader to the islands of fire and smoke – where shape-shifters, demons and lovers all populate a landscape blossoming with story. Imaginative contributions by such well-known writers of fantasy as Steve Berman, Eugie Foster,…

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Eye of Flame: Fantasies

Monday, July 5, 2010

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Product DescriptionIn this historical fantasy set in late 12th century Mongolia, an old woman has grown fearful of the magical powers she has misused in the past, and sworn never to use them again. But now she must help…

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Always After Thieves Watch: Stories of Childhood & Other Fantasies

Saturday, July 3, 2010

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Product DescriptionA glorious set of stories in the great tradition of Ray Bradbury! WHEN THE WORLD QUIETENS DOWN, MAGIC ABOUNDS! “PUMP-KIN! CAR-VER! PUMP-KIN! CAR-VER! Doo-doo-doo-dooo-dooooo-dooooooo!” he would jolt out gleefully, his lungs ravaged by the seven-mile run, his nose…

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Sovereign Fantasies: Arthurian Romance and the Making of Britain

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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Product DescriptionDuring and after the Hundred Years War, English rulers struggled with a host of dynastic difficulties, including problems of royal succession, volatile relations with their French cousins, and the consolidation of their colonial ambitions toward the areas of…

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CONSUMING FANTASIES: LABOR, LEISURE, AND THE LONDON SHOPGIRL,

Sunday, June 20, 2010

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Product DescriptionThe shopgirl was the subject of popular novels, newspaper articles, and political treatises on women’s work and leisure at the turn of the twentieth century. But who exactly was she, and why did she feature in so many…

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Snowman Snowman: Fables and Fantasies

Sunday, June 20, 2010

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Product DescriptionThe fables and fantasies In Snowman Snowman, “written In a torrential poetic prose” (The New York Times), read like dreams, nightmares, and fairy tales, and are often Imbued with a sense of moral consciousness. There is tale of…

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Imagining the King’s Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796

Saturday, June 19, 2010

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Product DescriptionIt is high treason in British law to imagine the king’s death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in Britain must have found themselves imagining that the same fate might befall George III. How…

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Colonial Fantasies: Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

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Product DescriptionSince Germany became a colonial power relatively late, postcolonial theorists and histories of colonialism have thus far paid little attention to it. Uncovering Germany’s colonial legacy and imagination, Susanne Zantop reveals the significance of colonial fantasies—a kind of…

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Shadows of Imagination, Revised: The Fantasies of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams

Saturday, June 5, 2010

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Product DescriptionNow in its fourth printing, this standard critical anthology dealing with the big three among fantasy writers has been brought up to date through the addition of an Afterword discussing the book Tolkien considered his greatest work, the…

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Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism

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