Fairy Tales Of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 To The Present - 9781350202825

Introduction A tale of two fantasies -- 1. The phantom out of Oxford Street: Dickens's fairyland -- 2. The Martian on Primrose Hill: Wells's scientific romances -- 3. The bells of lost London: Orwell's and Peake's anti-fantasies -- 4. A pyramid of flesh on Villiers Street: New Worlds magazine and the Jerry Cornelius myth 5. 'My home, the city': Secondary-world London.

• | Author: Hadas Elber-Aviram
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Aug 25, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 310 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1350202827
• | ISBN-13: 9781350202825