In eighteenth-century Britain ways of perceiving reality conceptualising the human subject
and presenting these issues in narrative texts changed profoundly - some may say towards a new
type of 'realism'. Nonetheless traditional narrative genres that employed fantastic elements
to negotiate questions of the subject and its position in the world continued to be written and
read: wonder and providence literature apparition narratives ghost stories letters from the
dead fantastic voyages fairy tales oriental tales and it-narratives. Except for some famous
examples such as Jonathan Swift's
