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One of the several recent critical analyses of fantasy is Rosemary Jackson’s Fantasy: the Literature of Subversion. In her book Jackson theorizes the subversive potential of fantasy literature: to challenge our construction of the ‘real’. Fantasy, she says, ‘reveals reason and reality to be arbitrary, shifting constructs, and thereby scrutinises the category of the “real”’ (Jackson, 21).
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Francis, A.C. (1991). The Education of Desire: Utopian Fiction and Feminist Fantasy. In: Filmer, K. (eds) The Victorian Fantasists. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21277-4_4
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