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O'Keefe, Deborah. Readers in Wonderland: The Liberating Worlds of Fantasy Fiction: From Dorothy to Harry Potter.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
222p. bibliog. index. CIP. Continuum. 2003. Tr $29.95. ISBN 0-8264-1469-9. LC 2002154247.
Organized in a general progression that charts a journey from innocence to experience, this survey of more than 200 modern fantasies moves from happier, harmonious landscapes through progressively darker and more complex worlds, ending with a chapter on the epic high fantasy battles between good and evil. O'Keefe does not try to formulate a critical theory of fantasy, but rather takes a descriptive and appreciative approach, one that leans more heavily on the ideas of psychologists, social historians, and philosophers than on the large body of literary criticism about, children s …
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