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Author Egoff, Sheila A.

Title Worlds within : children's fantasy from the Middle Ages to today / Sheila A. Egoff
Published Chicago : American Library Association, 1988

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Description xi, 339 pages ; 24 cm
Summary The matter of fantasy -- The fairies underground : fantasy from the Middle Ages to Victorian times -- The golden key : fantasy of the Victorian era -- Dream days : the Edwardian Age and after -- A box of delights : fantasy of the 1920s and 1930s -- Playing in the shadows of war : fantasy of the 1940s -- There and back again : fantasy of the 1950s -- Extensions of reality : fantasy of the 1960s -- Games of dark : fantasy of the 1970s-- Possibilities and plausibilities : fantasy of the 1980s
Analysis Children's fantasy literature in English - Critical studies
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 311-327
Subject Children -- Books and reading -- History.
Children's stories, American -- History and criticism.
Children -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries.
Children's stories, English -- History and criticism.
Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Fantasy in literature.
LC no. 88010058
ISBN 0838904947 (alk. paper)