Editing Low fantasy (section)

==History==
Fantasy fiction developed out of [[fairy tales]] in the nineteenth century.  Early nineteenth century scholarship in folklore led to fantasy fiction dominating Victorian children's literature.<ref name="Jean-François" />  The genre diverged into the two subgenres, high and low fantasy, after the [[Edwardian era]].  Low fantasy itself diverged into further subgenres in the twentieth century.<ref name="Jean-François">{{cite book |title=Worlds of Wonder |last=Jean-François |first=Leroux |editor1-last=Jean-François |editor1-first=Leroux |editor2-last=La Bossière |editor2-first=Camille R. |year=2004 |publisher=University of Ottawa |isbn=978-0-7766-0570-8 |pages=190–192 |chapter=The World Is Its Own Place |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v4VAFl2pJ0gC&q=9780776605708}}</ref>
The forms of low fantasy include personified animals, personified toys (including ''[[The Indian in the Cupboard]]'' and ''[[Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House#Background|The Doll's House]]''; building on the earlier ''[[The Adventures of Pinocchio]]''), comic fantasies of exaggerated character traits and altered physics (including ''[[Pippi Longstocking]]'' and ''[[The Borrowers]]''), magical powers, supernatural elements and time slips.<ref name="Jean-François" /><ref name="TempleFreemanMoss" />

French fantastic fiction is predominantly within the low fantasy genre.  Low fantasy corresponds to the French genre of "le [[fantastique]]" but French literature has no tradition equivalent to English literature's high fantasy.<ref name=Ketterer /> According to David Ketterer, emeritus professor of English at [[Concordia University (Quebec)|Concordia University]], [[Montreal]], the French term ''le fantastique'' "refers to a specific kind of fantasy, that in which the supernatural or the bizarre intrudes into the everyday world; the closest equivalents in English would be 'low fantasy', '[[dark fantasy]]' or '[[weird fiction]]'.  'Le fantastique' does not cover the kind of complete secondary world creation typified by Tolkien's ''Lord of the Rings''.  There is no tradition of 'dragons and wizards' fantasy in French."<ref name=Ketterer /> Where high fantasy does occur, the terms "le merveilleux" or "le fantastique moderne" are often used.<ref name=Ketterer>{{cite book|title=Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy|first=David|last=Ketterer|publisher=Indiana University Press|year=1992|isbn=978-0-253-33122-9|chapter=French-Canadian Fantastique (1837-1983)|page=[https://archive.org/details/canadiansciencef00davi/page/27 27]|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/canadiansciencef00davi/page/27}}</ref>