Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy

Introduction: Fantasies of Antiquity Brett M. Rogers, University of Puget Sound Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Trinity University PART I: Classical Apparitions in (Pre-)Modern Fantasy 1. Classical Epic and the Poetics of Modern Fantasy Jesse Weiner, Hamilton College 2. Theorizing Fantasy: Enchantment, Parody, and the Classical Tradition...58 Cecilie Flugt, Danish Academy in Rome 3. The Mirror Crack'd: Fractured Classicisms in the Pre-Raphaelites and Victorian Illustration....77 Genevieve S. Gessert, American Academy in Rome 4. Classical Antiquity and the Timeless Horrors of H. P. Lovecraft...... 109 Robinson Peter Kramer, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn PART II: False Medievalism & Other Ancient Fantasies 5. Ancient Underworlds in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit...138 Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Trinity University 6. C. S. Lewis's The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" and Apuleius' Metamorphoses...171 Jeff Winkle, Calvin College 7. A Time for Fantasy: Retelling Apuleius in in C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces......190 Marcus Folch, Columbia University PART III: Children and (Other) Ancient Monsters 8. The Classical Pantheon in Children's Fantasy Literature ...224 Sarah Annes Brown, Anglia Ruskin University 9. Orestes & the Half-Blood Prince: Ghosts of Aeschylus in the Harry Potter SeriesL....249 Brett M. Rogers, University of Puget Sound 10. Filthy Harpies and Fictive Knowledge in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy....281 Antonia Syson, Purdue University 11. Girls in Bears' Clothing in Greek Mythology and Disney/Pixar's Brave...303 Elizabeth Manwell, Kalamazoo College PART IV: (Post)Modern Fantasies of Antiquity 12. Fantasies of Mimnermos in Anne Carson's "The Brainsex Paintings" (Plainwater)....329 Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Pomona College 13. Aeneas' American New World in Jo Graham's Black Ships.....354 Jennifer A. Rea, University of Florida 14. Genre, Mimesis, and Virgilian Intertext in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire..........378 Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, University of Texas-Austin Works Cited.... 403