Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian culture / edited by Stephanie Trigg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trigg, Stephanie.

Series:

Making the Middle Ages ; v. 8.

Making the Middle Ages ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medievalism--Australia.

Medievalism.

Gothic literature--Australia--History and criticism.

Gothic literature.

Australian literature--History and criticism.

Australian literature.

Medievalism in literature.

Gothic revival (Art)--Australia.

Gothic revival (Art).

Australia--Civilization.

Australia.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, 2005.

Summary:

Making the Middle Ages is a series of monographs, and occasionally of collections, which aims to open up the rapidly growing and relatively newly recognised field of 'medievalism' - the post-medieval construction of the Middle Ages in scholarship and the arts - to a readership of academics, graduate students and, in the case of some volumes, undergraduates or the general reader. The series is devoted to scholarship in the cultural influence of the Middle Ages on England, mainland Europe, and North America from the sixteenth century to the present day. It focuses on two perspectives of medievalism: (i) Mediavistik, the origins and history of medieval studies, both inside and outside the academy; and (ii) Mediavismus, the creation and recreation of the Middle Ages in post-medieval art, history, literature and popular culture.

Contents:

Introduction: Medieval and Gothic Australia / Stephanie Trigg xi

Part I Re-writing Medieval and Gothic Literature

Marcus Clarke, Gothic, Romance / David Matthews 3

Romantic Medievalism and Gothic Horror: Wordsworth, Tennyson, Kendall, and the Dilemmas of Antipodean Gothic / Peter Otto 19

'I See a Strangeness': Francis Webb's Norfolk and English Catholic Medievalism / Andrew Lynch 41

'Where No Knight in Armour Has Ever Trod': The Arthurianism of Jessica Anderson's Heroines / Louise D'Arcens 61

Australian 'Everymans': Post-Medieval Spiritual Adventurers / Margaret Rogerson 81

Medievalism and Memory Work: Archer's Folly and the Gothic Revival Pile / Jenna Mead 99

Medievalism as Heritage: Australian Children's Books / Valerie Krips 119

Part II Gothic Landscapes and Medieval Communities

Passing through Customs: William Dampier's Medieval Baggage / Geraldine Barnes, Adrian Mitchell 131

Rebuilding the Middle Ages: Medievalism in Australian Architecture / Sarah Randles 147

The Daughters of the Court: Women's Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne / Victoria Emery 171

'A Place of Horror and Vast Solitude': Medieval Monasticism and the Australian Landscape / Megan Cassidy-Welch 189

A New Sort of Castle in the Air: Medievalist Communities in Contemporary Australia / Adina Hamilton 205

'The Only Limitation Is Your Imagination': Quantifying Medieval Fantasies in Dungeons and Dragons / Matthew Chrulew 223

The 'UnAustralian' Goth: Notes Towards a Dislocated National Subject / Ken Gelder 241

Rituals of Nationhood: Medievalism, Neo-Traditionalism and Republicanism / Paul James, Stephanie Trigg 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

2503517021

OCLC:

61129853