In his entry on Lord Dunsany in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy John Clute categorises The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1924) as an ‘instauration fantasy.’ The term means - turning to the entry on ‘Instauration Fantasy’ in the same volume - ‘restoration after decay, lapse or dilapidation’, and the ‘instauration fantasies’ Clute identifies are ‘fantasies about the matter of the world’. He is a contributor to the SF ENCYCLOPEDIA.From Clute and Grant (eds) “ The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ” (1999) He is Professor of 19th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, London University and has written a number of critical works on both SF and 19th Century poetry.

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