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 Gullivers 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， Gullivers 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 Arthurs 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
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