Colin Manlove

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Colin Manlove

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#2951

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#5056

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Literary Criticism

#161

World Rank

#243

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According to Wikipedia, Colin Nicholas Manlove was a literary critic with a particular interest in fantasy. Modern Fantasy: Five Studies , which considers at length works by Charles Kingsley, George MacDonald, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and Mervyn Peake, was written at a time when "no serious study of the subject [of fantasy literature] has appeared". In it he posits a definition of fantasy as: A fiction evoking wonder and containing a substantial and irreducible element of supernatural or impossible worlds, beings or objects with which the mortal characters in the story or the readers become on at least partly familiar terms. His conclusion, however, is negative: each of the five major writers whose work he considered failed to sustain their original vision.

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Colin Manlove's Published Works

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Published Works

Modern Fantasy: Five Studies (1975) (48)
The Fantasy Literature of England (1999) (42)
The Impulse of Fantasy Literature (1983) (34)
From Alice to Harry Potter: Children's Fantasy in England (2003) (32)
Swift's Structures: "A Description of the Morning"' and Some Others (1989) (14)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Patterning of a Fantastic World (1993) (13)
Scottish Fantasy Literature: A Critical Survey (1994) (12)
Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the Present (1992) (11)
Against Genre/Theory: The State of Science Fiction Criticism@@@Great Themes of Science Fiction: A Study in Imagination and Evolution@@@Science Fiction: Ten Explorations@@@Science, Myth, and the Fictional Creation of Alien Worlds (1991) (10)
Science Fiction: Ten Explorations (1986) (9)
Charles Kingsley, H. G. Wells, and the machine in Victorian fiction (1993) (9)
Critical Thinking: A Guide to Interpreting Literary Texts (1989) (7)
Conservatism in the Fantasy of Le Guin (1980) (5)
Literature and reality, 1600-1800 (1978) (4)
An Anthology of Scottish Fantasy Literature (1999) (4)
Tolkien On Fairy-stories: Expanded Edition, with Commentary and Notes (review) (2009) (4)
Spenser: The Faerie Queene, Book I (1992) (3)
Out of the Silent Planet (1938) (1987) (3)
A Reading of At the Back of the North Wind (2008) (2)
"Closer than an Eye": The Interconnection of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1988) (2)
The Circle of the Imagination: George MacDonald's Phantastes and Lilith (1982) (2)
George MacDonald's Fairy Tales: Their Roots in MacDonald's Thought (1970) (2)
Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress (1992) (2)
The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie (2007) (2)
The Double View in Volpone (1979) (2)
“Not to Hide but to Show”: “The Golden Key” (2003) (1)
Engineered Innocence: Blake's ‘The Little Black Boy’ and ‘The Fly’ (1977) (1)
Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751) (1978) (1)
Charles Kingsley: The Water-Babies (1992) (1)
C.S. Lewis: His Literary Achievement (1987) (1)
Conservatism in Fantasy: Ursula Le Guin (1983) (1)
The Fantasy Literature of England@@@Alice's Adventures in the Oral-Literary Continuum (1999) (1)
The Middle English Pearl (1992) (1)
The Metaphysical Poets (1992) (0)
THE GAP IN SHAKESPEARE. The Motif of Division from Richard II to The Tempest. (1981) (0)
Philip José Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go(1971) (1986) (0)
Dante: The Commedia (1992) (0)
Frederik Pohl, Alternating Currents (1956) (1986) (0)
Secondary World Fantasy (1999) (0)
Brian Aldiss, Hothouse (1962) (1986) (0)
MacDonald's Counter-literature (2006) (0)
Scotland’s Forgotten Treasure: The Visionary Romances of George MacDonald (2016) (0)
Introduction: Traditional and Modern Fantasy (1983) (0)
George MacDonald and the Fairy Tales of Francis Paget and Frances Browne (1999) (0)
Modern Christian Fantasy (1992) (0)
Till We Have Faces (1956) (1987) (0)
The Electromagnetic World of George MacDonald’s Visionary Romances (2020) (0)
Blake: ‘The Little Black Boy’ and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1992) (0)
Children’s Fantasy (1999) (0)
The Great Divorce (1945) (1987) (0)
The Origins of English Fantasy (1999) (0)
George MacDonald’s Fairy Tales (1992) (0)
George MacDonald's Children's Fantasies and the Divine Imagination (2020) (0)
Recent Studies of Science Fiction and Fantasy (1985) (0)
Fantasy and Loss: T. H. White (1983) (0)
Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun (1980–83) (1986) (0)
Imagining Evil: George MacDonald's The Wise Woman: A Parable (1875) (2016) (0)
The Pilgrim’s Regress (1933) (1987) (0)
Robert Silverberg, Nightwings (1969) (1986) (0)
G. K. Chesterton and George MacDonald: Strangers and Brothers (2001) (0)
Twentieth-Century Christian Fantasy (1992) (0)
The ‘Narnia’ Books (1950–56) (1987) (0)
Close Analysis as an Interpretative Key (1989) (0)
The Union of Opposites in Fantasy: E. Nesbit (1983) (0)
The Order Of Harry Potter (2010) (0)
Jonson and Herrick (1978) (0)
A. A. Attanasio, Radix (1981) (1986) (0)
Donne and Marvell (1978) (0)
Clifford D. Simak, Shakespeare’s Planet (1976) (1986) (0)
Thomson: The Seasons (1726–44) (1978) (0)
MacDonald's Anti-Theology (2006) (0)
Colin Manlove, Christian Fantasy. London: Macmillan 1992 h.b. 356 p (2017) (0)
‘In the Demythologising Business’: Angela Carter’s The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr Hoffmann (1972) (1992) (0)
Fantasy as Praise: Charles Williams (1983) (0)
Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (1973) (1986) (0)
That Hideous Strength (1945) (1987) (0)
Circularity in Fantasy: George MacDonald (1983) (0)
Fantasy and Mind: Mervyn Peake (1983) (0)
Conventions and Abbreviations (2009) (0)
Swedenborg: Heaven and Hell (1992) (0)
Isaac Asimov, the Foundation Trilogy (1951– 53; serialized 1942–49) (1986) (0)
Goldsmith and Crabbe (1978) (0)
Anaemic Fantasy: Morris, Dunsany, Eddison, Beagle (1983) (0)
The French Queste del Saint Graal (1992) (0)
Milton: Paradise Lost (1992) (0)

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University of Edinburgh