In this course, we will explore how fantasy literature and film imagines the life we share with others, human and nonhuman. Focusing on modern and contemporary works from Britain and beyond, we will consider how fantasy looks beyond what seems most obvious and ordinary and allows for different ways of relating to the world in which we live. We will also examine fantasy’s concern to create beings and ecosystems that do not exist in this world. After exploring the pastoral landscapes and lively beings of classical fantasy (Tolkien), we will ask how more recent works engage processes such as climate change through fantasy. As well as drawing on the scholarly field of the environmental humanities, this course will consider the meanings of the concepts of fantasy and the real.