Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-280) and index.
Contents
The evolution of a word -- Christmas at Scrooge's -- Dreams and nightmares -- Consensus and nonsense: Lear and Carroll -- Adults in allegory land: Kingsley and Macdonald -- From bildungsroman to death-romance: phantastes, Lilith, and german romanticism -- Worlds within worlds: Kipling and Nesbit.