Table of contents:

Phaedrus (388-366 B.C.) / Plato --
The poetics (c. 334-323 B.C.) / Aristotle --
An apology for poetry (1595) / Philip Sidney --
"The fairy way of writing" (1712) / Joseph Addison --
Letters on chivalry and romance (1762) / Richard Hurd --
On the pleasure derived from objects of terror (1773) / Anna Laetitia Aikin (later Barbauld) --
Letter (1797) and Biographia literaria (1817) / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
On the supernatural in poetry (1826) / Ann Radcliffe --
On the supernatural in fictitious composition (1827) / Walter Scott --
Frauds on the fairies (1853) / Charles Dickens --
Fairy stories (1868) / John Ruskin --
The fantastic imagination (1890) / George MacDonald --
Fairy tales (1908) / G.K. Chesterton --
The uncanny (1919) / Sigmund Freud --
Introduction to Supernatural horror in literature (1927) / H.P. Lovecraft --
Critics (1956) / Damon Knight --
The mythos of summer : romance (1957) / Northrop Frye --
Characteristics of genre and plot composition in Dostoevsky's works (1963) / Mikhail Bakhtin --
Definitions of territory : fantasy (1970) / Italo Calvino --
The fantastic : a structural approach to a literary genre (1970) / Tzvetan Todorov --
From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973) / Ursula Le Guin --
Introduction to Modern fantasy (1975) / Colin Manlove --
The fantastic and fantasy (1976) / Eric Rabkin --
The evolution of a word (1979) / Stephen Prickett --
Magical narratives : on the dialectical use of genre criticism (1981) / Fredric Jameson --
The encounter with fantasy (1982) / Gary Wolfe --
Clinamen : towards a theory of fantasy (1982) / Harold Bloom --
Literary fantasy and ecological comedy (1985) / Don D. Elgin --
"Fantasy," from Critical terms for science fiction and fantasy (1986) / Gary Wolfe --
Prelude : nameless things and thingless names (1987) / Lance Olsen --
Fantasy as mode, genre, formula (1992) / Brian Attebery --
"Fantasy," from The encyclopedia of fantasy (1997) / John Clute --
Joseph Addison : the first critic of the fantastic (2000) / David Sandner --
Fabling to the near night (2000) / Jane Yolen --
Marxism and fantasy : an introduction (2002) / China Miéville.