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FANTASY AESTHETICS

Fantasy novels are products of popular culture. They owe their popularity also to the
visualization of medievalist artifacts on book covers and designs  illustrations  maps  and
marketing: Castles on towering cliffs  cathedral-like architecture  armored heroes and
enchanting fairies  fierce dragons and mages follow mythical archetypes and develop pictorial
aesthetics of fantasy  completed by gothic fonts  maps and page layout that refer to medieval
manuscripts and chronicles. The contributors to this volume explore the patterns and paradigms
of a specific medievalist iconography and book design of fantasy which can be traced from the
19th century to the present.

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