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Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner are among the most famous and successful of children’s books, but they are not generally regarded as being among the most famous and successful fantasies. Yet they are classic examples of the domestic fantasy, a genre that encapsulates the distinctive features of fantasy in general, and interrelates the adult and children’s forms of it.
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Hunt, P. (1992). Winnie-the-Pooh and Domestic Fantasy. In: Butts, D. (eds) Stories and Society. Insights. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22111-0_8
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