Introduction

Charting the Terrain
  • Jamie Williamson
Chapter

Abstract

The coalescence of fantasy—that contemporary literary category whose name most readily evokes notions of “epic trilogies” with “mythic” settings and characters—into a discrete genre occurred quite recently and abruptly, a direct result of the crossing of a resurgence of interest in American popular “Sword and Sorcery” in the early 1960s with the massive commercial success of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the paperback editions of which had been motivated by the former, in the mid-1960s.

Keywords

Eighteenth Century Science Fiction Fairy Tale Narrative Form Romance Literature 
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