Defining medievalism(s) / edited by Karl Fugelso.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fugelso, Karl.

Series:

Studies in medievalism 0738-7164 ; 17-18.

Studies in medievalism, 0738-7164 ; 17-18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medievalism.

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Defining medievalisms

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2009.

Contents:

[1] The founding and the founder: medievalism and the legacy of Leslie J. Workman / Kathleen Verduin

Medievalism: its linguistic history in nineteenth-century Britain / Clare A. Simmons

Medievalism and Medieval reception: a terminological question / Nils Holger Petersen

Medievalisms and why they matter / Tom Shippey

Medievalism, authority, and the academy / Gwendolyn A. Morgan

The tropes of medievalism / M.J. Toswell

Medievalism and the Middle Ages / Elizabeth Emery

Medievalism from here / Karl Fugelso

A steam-whistle modernist?: representations of King Alfred in Dickens's A child's history of England and The battle of life / Emily Walker Heady

Writing Medieval women (and men): Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter / Mark B. Spencer

J.K. Rowling's Medieval bestiary / Gail Orgelfinger

Seamus Heaney's audio Beowulf: an analysis of the omissions / Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen

The king's phantom: staging majesty in Bale's Kynge Johan / Thea Corvone

Rodelinda goes opera: the Lombard queen's journey form Medieval backstage to Händel's "dramma per musica" / Werner Wunderlich

The ring of the Nibelung and the Nibelungenlied: Wagner's ambiguous relationship to a source / Edward R. Haymes.

2. I. Defining medievalism(s) II: some more perspective(s). Medievalism as fun and games / Veronica Ortenberg West-Harling

Medievalism and excluded middles / Nickolas Haydock

Medievalitis Fugit: medievalism and temporality / Richard Utz

Medievalists, medievalism, and medievalismists: the Middle Ages, Protean thinking, and the opportunistic teacher-scholar / E.L. Risden

Living with neomedievalism / Carol L. Robinson and Pamela Clements

Tough love: teaching the new medievalisms / Jane Chance

II. Interpretations. Is medievalism reactionary? From between the World Wars to the twenty-first century: on the notion of progress in our perception of the Middle Ages / Alain Corbellari

Gustave Doré's illustrations for Dante's Divine comedy: innovation, influence, and reception / Aida Audeh

Soundscapes of Middle Earth: the question of medievalist music in Peter Jackson's Lord of the ring films / Stephen Meyer

Now you don't see it, now you do: recognizing the Grail as the Grail / Roberta Davidson

From the Middle Ages to the Internet Age: the medieval courtly love tradition in Jeanette Winterson's The passion and The.powerbook / Carla A. Arnell

New golden legends: golden saints of the nineteenth century / Clare A. Simmons

A remarkable woman? Popular historians and the image of Eleanor of Aquitaine / Michael Evans

The new seven deadly sins / Carol Jamison

Notes on contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781843841845

1843841843

9781843842101

1843842106

OCLC:

262719856