Table of Contents
Preface
Anna Höglund and Cecilia Trenter
Introduction
Anna Höglund and Cecilia Trenter
The Use of the Fantastic in a Historical Perspective
Dragons and Kingdoms: Political Authority and Fantasy in the
Histories of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Saxo Grammaticus
Hans Hägerdal
Egyptian Mummies, Medicine and the Supernatural in
Eighteenth-Century Sweden
Joachim Östlund
A Double-Edged Sword: Promises and Dangers of Hypnotism in Sweden,
1880–1915
Cecilia Riving
The Use of the Fantastic and Fantastika in Contemporary Culture
A Friend and Foe: The Portrayal of Otherness and Disease in Vampire
Fiction
Anna Höglund
Priestesses of Avalon: Fantasy Fiction and Contemporary Goddess
Worship
Åsa Trulsson
Dwarfs Are Not Religious, Sir! Gradually Reclining Dwarven
Irreligion in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Universe
Jonas Svensson
Bringing Dragons Back into the World: Dismantling the Anthropocene
in Robin Hobb’s The Realm of the Elderlings
Mariah Larsson
Our World Is Dew: Tor Åge Bringsværd’s Fable Prose as a
Chthulucenic Exploration
Marit Ruge Bjærke and Kyrre Kverndokk
The Use of the Fantastic and Fantastika in Memory Culture
“And this is how I tried to fathom the Lindenborg Pool”: William
Morris, Medievalism and Modernity
Per Klingberg
Fairy Tales Transformed: Analyzing a New Wave of Feminist
Retellings of Fairy Tales
Maria Nilson
Remediation of Cultural Memory in the Dragon Age Videogame
Series
Cecilia Trenter
Fallout, Memory and Values: The Uses of History and Time in a
Fantasy-Driven Videogame
Derek Fewster
About the Contributors
Index
Anna Höglund is a senior lecturer in comparative literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her research areas are horror fiction and fantastic fiction in literature and film with a focal point on the functions of monsters like vampires, zombies and werewolves, as instrumental interpretations of the world. Cecilia Trenter is a senior lecturer in history at Malmö University, Sweden. She works within the research field of memory studies and public history, including heritage adaptions and remediation in fiction, for instance epic films and computer-games.
“Offers numerous insightful, informative and original contributions to a wide variety of topics circulating around the fantastic’s multiple interconnections with cultural histories….The book will be a valuable resource for scholars/students of the fantastic...”—Sean Moreland, University of Ottawa
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