{"id":12692,"date":"2020-05-19T15:06:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T14:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=12692"},"modified":"2020-05-21T14:31:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T13:31:32","slug":"paul-march-russell-urban-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/05\/19\/paul-march-russell-urban-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul March-Russell on urban fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul March-Russell, Lecturer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/european-culture-languages\/comparative-literature\">Department of Comparative Literature<\/a>, has published an article in The Conversation titled <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/urban-fantasy-novels-why-they-matter-and-which-ones-to-read-first-137942\">&#8216;Urban fantasy novels: why they matter and which ones to read first&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Franchises like <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> and <em>The Witcher<\/em> often lead us to think of fantasy as a pastoral genre: a medieval landscape filled with knights riding on quests, enchanted woodland and isolated castles. Yet there is another setting for magic, supernatural creatures and ancient wisdom: the modern city. Urban fantasy occupies a place somewhere between epic fantasy and science fiction. On the one hand, it features seemingly eternal and otherworldly beings; on the other hand, it takes place within man-made, built environments.<\/p>\n<p>Paul says: &#8220;Although coined in the late 1980s, the roots of urban fantasy arguably reach back into the nineteenth century. The genre offers a lens on how we think about and imagine our urban spaces. This imaginative response seems all the more urgent now that we&#8217;ve had to re-think our home and work lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul March-Russell, Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature, has published an article in The Conversation titled &#8216;Urban fantasy novels: why they matter and which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/05\/19\/paul-march-russell-urban-fantasy\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":12697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18583,124],"tags":[183240,8814,1201,475,207050],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12692"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12725,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12692\/revisions\/12725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}