The Infernal Riddle of Historical Fantasy
Join us to launch James Treadwell’s novel The Infernal Riddle of Thomas Peach with a discussion of fantasy’s obsession with history!
Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic
Date: Wednesday 24 November 2021
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Online via Zoom webinar
Category: Academic events
Speaker: James Treadwell, L. J. MacWhirter, Fraser Dallachy, Rob Maslen
The Infernal Riddle of Historical Fantasy
Wednesday 24 November, 6 pm GMT
With James Treadwell (author of the Advent trilogy), L. J. MacWhirter (author of Black Snow Falling), Fraser Dallachy (Lecturer in historical linguistics), and Rob Maslen (Co-director of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at Glasgow).
Join us online as we celebrate the launch of James Treadwell’s most recent novel, The Infernal Riddle of Thomas Peach (Hodder and Stoughton, 2021), with a discussion of fantasy’s obsession with history. Each of our panelists shares this obsession. Treadwell’s novel is set in the late eighteenth century, McWhirter’s in the time of the Tudors, while Dallachy and his colleagues have advised historical novelists by drawing on the vast resources of the Historical Thesaurus of English. Together they will consider some of the challenges faced by fantasists who choose to set their stories in the past.
Find out more about this event here.