Download or read book Possible Worlds of the Fantastic written by Nancy H. Traill and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Possible Worlds of the Fantastic Nancy Traill argues that the transformation of the fantastic was the realists' answer to the intellectual changes of the time, when the 'fairy way of writing' was no longer credible. She defines and describes the cultural conditions of this transformation - positivism in philosophy and science, and realism in literature and the arts.