《奇幻小说》介绍了奇幻小说的必要元素、发展过程和主要作家作品，并且详细分析了《科学怪人》、“指环王”系列、“哈利·波特”系列等著名的奇幻小说以及其他文学名著中包含的奇幻情节。书中还附有专有名词解释、重要参考书目，方便读者对此类小说作进一步研究。全书脉络清晰，内容翔实，适合英美文学研究者、爱好者以及英语专业学生阅读。

Chapter One: What Is Fantasy Writing?

 Introduction

 Beyond the Horizon

 Epic Space

Chapter Two: Fantasy as Timeline

 Introduction

 The Origins of Modern Fantasy

 Early Modern Fantasy

 'Tree' Versus 'Leaf': Reading the Present Through the Past

 Phantasm Versus Fantasia

Chapter Three: How to Read Fantasy; or, Dreams and Their Fictional Readers

 Introduction

 Reading Dreams

 Medieval Dream Vision

 The World in/of the Mirror

Chapter Four: The Best and Best Known

 Introduction

 Play and Nonsense: Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear

 Cartographies and Geographies of Fantasy: Animal Farm and Gulliver's Travels

 J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: Discourses of Monstrosity

 The Monsters of Middle Earth

 Adolescent Monsters: Harry Potter

 H. G. Wells: The First Men in the Moon and The Time Machine

 'Other' Desires: Homoeroticism and the Feminine

 Mothers and Mirrors: Harry Potter

Chapter Five: The Utopia as an Underlying Feature of All Major Modes of Fantasy

 Introduction

 Thomas More, Utopia

 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Her/and

 H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon and The Time Machine

 Inter-Generic Texts: The Time Machine and A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court

 Yann Martel, Life of Pi

 George Orwell, Animal Farm

 Technology Versus Magic: A Connecticut Yankee and Harry Potter

 Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook

 William Gibson, Neuromancer

Chapter Six: One Key Question: Is There Life for Fantasy Beyond Genre?

 Introduction

 Ghosts and Their Readers

 Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

 Charles Dickens, 'The Signalman'

 Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

 Edith Wharton, 'The Eyes'

Chapter Seven: Fantasy Criticism

 Introduction

 Interrogating the Boundaries of Fantasy: Todorov, Matin,and Tolkien

 Determining Spaces: Tolkien, Bettelheim, and Zipes

 Fantasy as (Dream-)Screen: Psychoanalytic Approaches

 New Bodies/New Knowledge: Massey, Haraway, and Botting

Chapter Eight: A Glossary of Terms

Chapter Nine: Selected Reading List

Index