Michael G. Cornelius is a professor of English and director of the Master’s of Humanities program at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning novelist and the author or editor of numerous scholarly works. Marybeth Ragsdale-Richards teaches in the English and Women’s Studies programs at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sites of Speculation: Contestation, Imagination, and the Places of Childhood FancyMichael G. CorneliusAlice Retaught: A Child’s Experience of ­Rule-Making and ­Rule-Following in Social SpaceDakota RootOn the Road to Oz: Crossing Fantasy Spaces in L. Frank Baum’s Oz SeriesSteven A. NardiTopoi and Character in the Redwall SeriesJohn R. GilhoolyMind the Verbal Cartographic Gap: Uncovering Power in the Fantasy Multiverse of Diana Wynne Jones’ Chrestomanci SeriesJulia Jin WangThe Map Is Not the Territory: Mapping Growth and Change in Catherynne M. Valente’s Fairyland SeriesEllis KhachidzeSowing the Seeds of Fear: Architecting Fearscapes in R.L. Stine’s Fear Street SagaMarybeth Ragsdale-Richards(Un)Making Hell: Mirror Journeys in The Mortal Instruments and Dante’s InfernoRaphaela BehounekMyth, Place, and Time in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar ChildrenSean Ferrier-WatsonSpace as a Journey to Survival in Ann Aguirre’s EnclaveJessica Newman-DoubellTerror Castles and Red Gate Farms: “Haunted” Childhoods and the Commodification of SpaceMichael G. CorneliusUnderstanding ­Multi-World Metafiction Through ­Place-Attachment: Base World, New World, and (In)Complete World in the Inkheart TrilogyWenduo ZhangConclusion: The Limits of FancyMichael G. Cornelius and Marybeth Ragsdale-RichardsAbout the ContributorsIndex

Michael G. Cornelius is a professor of English and director of the Master’s of Humanities program at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning novelist and the author or editor of numerous scholarly works. Marybeth Ragsdale-Richards teaches in the English and Women’s Studies programs at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sites of Speculation: Contestation, Imagination, and the Places of Childhood FancyMichael G. CorneliusAlice Retaught: A Child’s Experience of ­Rule-Making and ­Rule-Following in Social SpaceDakota RootOn the Road to Oz: Crossing Fantasy Spaces in L. Frank Baum’s Oz SeriesSteven A. NardiTopoi and Character in the Redwall SeriesJohn R. GilhoolyMind the Verbal Cartographic Gap: Uncovering Power in the Fantasy Multiverse of Diana Wynne Jones’ Chrestomanci SeriesJulia Jin WangThe Map Is Not the Territory: Mapping Growth and Change in Catherynne M. Valente’s Fairyland SeriesEllis KhachidzeSowing the Seeds of Fear: Architecting Fearscapes in R.L. Stine’s Fear Street SagaMarybeth Ragsdale-Richards(Un)Making Hell: Mirror Journeys in The Mortal Instruments and Dante’s InfernoRaphaela BehounekMyth, Place, and Time in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar ChildrenSean Ferrier-WatsonSpace as a Journey to Survival in Ann Aguirre’s EnclaveJessica Newman-DoubellTerror Castles and Red Gate Farms: “Haunted” Childhoods and the Commodification of SpaceMichael G. CorneliusUnderstanding ­Multi-World Metafiction Through ­Place-Attachment: Base World, New World, and (In)Complete World in the Inkheart TrilogyWenduo ZhangConclusion: The Limits of FancyMichael G. Cornelius and Marybeth Ragsdale-RichardsAbout the ContributorsIndex

Michael G. Cornelius is a professor of English and director of the Master’s of Humanities program at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning novelist and the author or editor of numerous scholarly works. Marybeth Ragsdale-Richards teaches in the English and Women’s Studies programs at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sites of Speculation: Contestation, Imagination, and the Places of Childhood FancyMichael G. CorneliusAlice Retaught: A Child’s Experience of ­Rule-Making and ­Rule-Following in Social SpaceDakota RootOn the Road to Oz: Crossing Fantasy Spaces in L. Frank Baum’s Oz SeriesSteven A. NardiTopoi and Character in the Redwall SeriesJohn R. GilhoolyMind the Verbal Cartographic Gap: Uncovering Power in the Fantasy Multiverse of Diana Wynne Jones’ Chrestomanci SeriesJulia Jin WangThe Map Is Not the Territory: Mapping Growth and Change in Catherynne M. Valente’s Fairyland SeriesEllis KhachidzeSowing the Seeds of Fear: Architecting Fearscapes in R.L. Stine’s Fear Street SagaMarybeth Ragsdale-Richards(Un)Making Hell: Mirror Journeys in The Mortal Instruments and Dante’s InfernoRaphaela BehounekMyth, Place, and Time in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar ChildrenSean Ferrier-WatsonSpace as a Journey to Survival in Ann Aguirre’s EnclaveJessica Newman-DoubellTerror Castles and Red Gate Farms: “Haunted” Childhoods and the Commodification of SpaceMichael G. CorneliusUnderstanding ­Multi-World Metafiction Through ­Place-Attachment: Base World, New World, and (In)Complete World in the Inkheart TrilogyWenduo ZhangConclusion: The Limits of FancyMichael G. Cornelius and Marybeth Ragsdale-RichardsAbout the ContributorsIndex