Category talk:Fantasy novels by nationality

Preface
This category, like many others, needs a substantial preface. This one has only a hatlink to the parallel(?) class of science fiction novels, and that category has no preface at all.

The next section concerns the most important matter vital to an adequate substantial preface. --P64 (talk) 15:25, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

National (fantasy) novels
Do we elsewhere discuss the classification by nationality of fantasy, fantasy novels, fantasy writers?

F Writers need no special consideration; they are classified as other people, and as they are described in the leads of their biographies. Wikipedia has Category: British child writers as well as Category: British children's writers. I take for granted that we don't need to group characters in (British) fantasy who are writers.

F Novels may be classified by nationality and/or locale of their publication (first editions)? Is that appropriate? If so, we need only a way to handle co- or simultaneous publication. Alt, is a novel British by relation to the history of British literature? or culture more generally?

Fantasy may be classified nationally by relation to national culture. In practice, I believe, that will almost always be relation to national literature. Alt, national fantasy may be simply a category of categories, comprising national fantasy writers, national fantasy novels, national fantasy movies, and so on.

Does the geographical setting of low fantasy (set in our world) --or its novels and so on-- bear on its nationality? That may be another alternative (Alt) basis for classification but it doesn't pertain to high fantasy. --P64 (talk) 15:25, 7 May 2012 (UTC)