Of Modern Dragons; and other essays on Genre Fiction

This volume of essays explores some of the best crime fiction science fiction and writing for children in the last 40 years including work by Reginald Hill Thomas Harris Dorothy L. Sayers Nora Roberts J. D. Robb J. R. R. Tolkien Ursula Le Guin Anne McCaffrey Ian McDonald Octavia E. Butler and Tamora Pierce. A companion volume entitled Of Sex and Faerie; Further Essays on Genre Fiction is also available from Lulu. John Lennard took his B.A. and D.Phil. at Oxford University and his M.A. at Washington University in St Louis. He has taught for the Universities of London Cambridge and Notre Dame and for the Open University and was Professor of British & American Literature at the University of the West Indies-Mona 2004-09. His publications include But I Digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse (Clarendon Press 1991) The Poetry Handbook (1996; 2/e OUP 2005) and with Mary Luckhurst The Drama Handbook (OUP 2002).