Chapter One: What Is Fantasy Writing?
Introduction
Beyond the Horizon
Epic Space

Chapter Two: Fantasy as Timeline
Introduction
The Origins of Modern Fantasy
Early Modern Fantasy
'Tree' Versus 'Leaf': Reading the Present Through the Past
Phantasm Versus Fantasia

Chapter Three: How to Read Fantasy; or, Dreams and Their Fictional Readers
Introduction
Reading Dreams
Medieval Dream Vision
The World in/of the Mirror

Chapter Four: The Best and Best Known
Introduction
Play and Nonsense: Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear
Cartographies and Geographies of Fantasy: Animal Farm and Gulliver's Travels
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: Discourses of Monstrosity
The Monsters of Middle Earth
Adolescent Monsters: Harry Potter
H. G. Wells: The First Men in the Moon and The Time Machine
'Other' Desires: Homoeroticism and the Feminine
Mothers and Mirrors: Harry Potter

Chapter Five: The Utopia as an Underlying Feature of All Major Modes of Fantasy
Introduction
Thomas More, Utopia
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Her/and
H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon and The Time Machine
Inter-Generic Texts: The Time Machine and A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Technology Versus Magic: A Connecticut Yankee and Harry Potter
Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook
William Gibson, Neuromancer

Chapter Six: One Key Question: Is There Life for Fantasy Beyond Genre?
Introduction
Ghosts and Their Readers
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens, 'The Signalman'
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
Edith Wharton, 'The Eyes'

Chapter Seven: Fantasy Criticism
Introduction
Interrogating the Boundaries of Fantasy: Todorov, Matin,and Tolkien
Determining Spaces: Tolkien, Bettelheim, and Zipes
Fantasy as (Dream-)Screen: Psychoanalytic Approaches
New Bodies/New Knowledge: Massey, Haraway, and Botting
Chapter Eight: A Glossary of Terms
Chapter Nine: Selected Reading List
Index