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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, modern fantasy began to take shape. The history of modern fantasy literature begins with George MacDonald, the Scottish author of such novels as The Princess and the Goblin and Phantastes; the latter can be considered to be the first fantasy novel written for adults. [31]
May 18, 2020 · These classical works of fiction basically laid the groundwork for the typical hero’s journey as well as the hallmarks of fantasy stories for centuries to come. The Victorian age saw the publication of one of the most groundbreaking and influential fantasy novels of all time, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
In 1949, Mercury Press published the first issue of The Magazine of Fantasy, which was the first use of the term “fantasy” to define the genre. (The title of the publication changed to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction starting with the second issue.)
The history of modern fantasy literature began with George MacDonald, author of such novels as The Princess and the Goblin (1868) and Phantastes (1868), the latter of which is widely considered to be the first fantasy novel written for adults.
Mar 2, 2020 · It wasn’t until the late 19th and early 20th century that the genre as we know it started to take shape when Scottish author George MacDonald published the children’s novel The Princess and the...
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Patricia Waugh, for instance, has described metafiction as deliberately countering the expectations established by traditional fiction through its “opposition … to the language of the realistic novel.”
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The earliest known use of the adjective obtrusive is in the mid 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for obtrusive is from 1652, in the writing of Thomas Urquhart, author and translator.
