From the Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, p.3:
"It is in the seventeenth century that we can find the first critical awareness of the separate existence of a genre of 'fantasy'[.]"
You need an intentionally rationalist mindset - like that that came in with the Renaissance and the Enlightenment - to separate the fantastic out in literature.
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