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I will conclude with a brief overview of the new work that appeared during the period of the genre’s construction, from the Sword and Sorcery vogue of the early 1960s through about 1980, the point at which the bestseller genre that is still with us had fully consolidated itself.

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Williamson, J. (2015). Conclusion. In: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137515797_7

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