| Possible Worlds of the Fantastic: The Rise of the Paranormal in Literature Subjects: Fantastic fiction -- History and criticism; Fiction -- Technique; Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Possibility in literature; Reality in literature; Dickens Charles 1812–1870 -- Criticism interpretation etc.; Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich; In Possible Worlds of the Fantastic Nancy Traill argues that the transformation of the fantastic was the realists' answer to the intellectual changes of the time, when the 'fair way of writing' was no longer credible. Traill Nany H. : NANCY H. TRAILL teaches in the Division of Humanities, York University. |