{{Short description|British literary critic (1942–2020)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:Colin_Manlove.jpg|thumb|2017]] '''Colin Nicholas Manlove''' (4 May 1942 in [[Falkirk]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Colin Manlove (1942-2020) |url=https://locusmag.com/2020/06/colin-manlove-1942-2020/ |website=Locus Online |accessdate=17 June 2020}}</ref> – 1 June 2020<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr Colin Manlove Obituary |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/scotsman-uk/obituary.aspx?n=colin-manlove&pid=196301357 |website=Legacy.com |accessdate=11 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Literary critic who pioneered the serious study of fantasy fiction|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/literary-critic-who-pioneered-serious-study-fantasy-fiction-2889234|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619123628/https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/literary-critic-who-pioneered-serious-study-fantasy-fiction-2889234 |archive-date=2020-06-19 |access-date=30 January 2021|website=www.scotsman.com|language=en}}</ref>) was a [[literary critic]] with a particular interest in [[fantasy]]. ''Modern Fantasy: Five Studies'' (1975, published as by '''C. N. Manlove'''), which considers at length works by [[Charles Kingsley]], [[George MacDonald]], [[C. S. Lewis]], [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] and [[Mervyn Peake]], was written at a time when "no serious study of the subject [of [[fantasy literature]]] has appeared".<ref>'''Modern Fantasy: Five Studies''', Preface, p. vii</ref> In it he posits a definition of fantasy as: <blockquote> A fiction evoking wonder and containing a substantial and irreducible element of supernatural or impossible worlds, beings or objects with which the mortal characters in the story or the readers become on at least partly familiar terms. </blockquote> His conclusion, however, is negative: each of the five major writers whose work he considered failed to sustain their original vision.<ref>'''Modern Fantasy: Five Studies''', p. 258</ref>
He taught [[English Literature]] at the [[University of Edinburgh]] from 1967 until retiring as a reader in 1993.<ref>[http://www.wizardnews.com/story.20061126.html Children's literature expert to speak at Sectus 2007]</ref>
==Criticism== *''Modern Fantasy: Five Studies'' (1975) *''Literature and Reality 1600-1800'' (1978) *''The Gap in Shakespeare: The Motif of Division from Richard II to The Tempest'' (1981) *''The Impulse of Fantasy Literature'' (1983) *''Science Fiction: Ten Explorations'' (1986) *''C S Lewis: His Literary Achievement'' (1987) (updated ed.2010) *''Critical Thinking: A Guide to Interpreting Literary Texts'' (1989) *''Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the Present'' (1992) *''The Chronicles of Narnia: The Patterning of a Fantastic World'' (1993) - Twayne's Masterwork Studies (#127) *''Scottish Fantasy Literature: A Critical Survey'' (1994) *''The Fantasy Literature of England'' (1999) *''From Alice to Harry Potter: Children's Fantasy in England'' (2003) *''The Order of Harry Potter: Literary Skill in the Hogwarts Epic'' (2010) *''Scotland's Forgotten Treasure: the Visionary Romances of George MacDonald'' (2016) *''George MacDonald's Children's Fantasies and the Divine Imagination'' (2019)
==Anthologies== *''An Anthology of Scottish Fantasy Literature'' (1996)
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