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In Fantasy, Adam C. Roberts retells the story of fantasy as a re-enchantment of, rather than an escape from, the present moment. The book is full to overflowing with deft readings of fantasy texts from JRR Tolkien to Susanna Clarke, showing how the genre is at its core a restorative reaction to mechanised, industrialised, bourgeois modernity. * Merja Polvinen, Senior lecturer in English philology, University of Helsinki, Finland *

In Fantasy, Adam Roberts retells the story of fantasy as a re-enchantment of, rather than an escape from, the present moment. The book is full to overflowing with deft readings of fantasy texts from JRR Tolkien to Susanna Clarke, showing how the genre is at its core a restorative reaction to mechanised, industrialised, bourgeois modernity. * Merja Polvinen, Senior lecturer in English philology, University of Helsinki, Finland *

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Adam Roberts is an award-winning writer, critic and scholar. He is the author of 12 science fiction novels and stories and he has written for The Guardian and The Times. Professor in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, he has published numerous scholarly works such as The History of Science Fiction (2016) and The Riddles of the Hobbit (2013).

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