An exploration of fantastic soundworlds in nineteenth-century France, providing a fresh aesthetic and compositional context for Berlioz and others.

Inge van Rij's book demonstrates how Berlioz used the sights and sounds of the orchestra to explore other worlds.

A stimulating new approach to understanding the relationship between music and culture in the long nineteenth century.

This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Animation has played a key role in defining our collective e

Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories o