The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds

The fantastic book has long acted as an escape from, a mirror of or a scalpel applied to the real world. Artists with messages about what it means to be human have fashioned worlds to educate and entertain, whether they are distant from us in space (Tatooine), or in time (Middle Earth) or somewhere that is only slightly different from the world outside your window (the Marvel Universe). It is the construction of these worlds that forms the matter of The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds, and its 466 pages investigate the elements that bolster and inform that construction...