Brian Attebery

Matthew Sangster

Dimitra Fimi

Taylor Driggers

Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology

Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature

This book explores how authors profited from their writings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, contending that the most tangible benefits were social, rather than financial or aesthetic. It examines authors’ interactions with publishers; the challenges of literary sociability; the vexed construction of enduring careers; the factors that prevented most aspiring writers (particularly the less privileged) from accruing significant rewards; the rhetorical professionalisation of periodicals; and the manners in which emerging paradigms and technologies catalysed a belated transformation in how literary writing was consumed and perceived.

Living as an Author in the Romantic Period

Joe Sutliff Sanders

Sherryl Vint

Roger Luckhurst

Raphael Zähringer

Tony Venezia

Anthony F. Lang, Jr.

Ben De Bruyn

Mark P. Williams

Dougal McNeill

Paul March-Russell

The chapters in this collection respond to the range of interests that have shaped Miéville's fiction from his influential role in contemporary genre debates, to his ability to pose serious philosophical questions about state control, revolutionary struggle, regimes of apartheid, and the function of international law in a globalized world. This collection demonstrates how Miéville's fictions offer a striking example of contemporary literature's ability to imagine alternatives to neoliberal capitalism at a time of crisis for leftist ideas within the political realm.

Critical Essays

China Miéville

Matthew Sangster

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