Nature and the Numinous in Mythopoeic Fantasy Literature

Explores the connections between mythopoeic fantasy and the critical apparatuses of ecocriticism and posthumanism. Beginning with S.T. Coleridge's theories of the imagination as embodied in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the book moves on to explore standard mythopoeic fantasists such as George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien. Taking a step outside these mythopoeic fantasists, the concluding chapters discuss Algernon Blackwood and Ursula Le Guin.