New Zealand medievalism : reframing the medieval / edited by Anna Czarnowus and Janet M. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Czarnowus, Anna, editor.

Wilson, Janet, 1948- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medievalism--Social aspects--New Zealand.

Medievalism.

New Zealand--Civilization--European influences.

New Zealand.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 224 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Biography/History:

Anna Czarnowus is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Silesia, Katowice (Poland). She has published on Middle English literature and medievalisms, co-editing (with M.J.Toswell) Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood (2020), and (with Carolyne Larrington) Memory and Medievalism in George R.R. Martin and Game of Thrones: The Keeper of All Our Memories (2022). She is also the co-editor (with Laurel Ryan) of Medievalism and Slavic Popular Culture (forthcoming). Janet M. Wilson is Professor Emerita in English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK. She formerly taught medieval studies at universities in New Zealand and the UK. Her research now focuses on the postcolonial and diaspora writing of the white settler societies of Australia and New Zealand, as well as refugee writing, the global novel, transnationalism, and transculturalism. Katherine Mansfield is a special subject of interest. She is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and the series Studies in World Literature.

Contents:

Introduction: New Zealand medievalism : reframing the medieval / Anna Czarnowus and Janet M. Wilson

New Zealand medieval studies : an academy across the globe / Janet M. Wilson

Trans-Tasman medievalism : George Russell, Grahame Johnston, and Bernard Martin / Stephen Knight

There and back again : P.S. Ardern and J.A.W. Bennett as New Zealand medieval scholars / Rebecca Hayward

Place and space in te ao Māori and the medieval world / Madi Williams

Between worlds : the afterlife of medieval manuscripts in the Alfred and Isabel Reed collection / Victoria Condie

Integrating experiential learning to reinvigorate medieval studies in New Zealand / Simone Celine Marshall

Music, medievalism, and the New Zealand early music revival / Jonathan Le Cocq

Tolkien's primitivism and the myth of a pastoral paradise in Peter Jackson's Tolkien adaptations / Anna Czarnowus

Set in concrete : the stained glass of St Peter's Cathedral, Hamilton, and the AngloCatholic menace / Alexandra Barratt

Havelock North : embodied medievalism in an Aotearoa New Zealand village / Ellie Crookes

Aotearoa New Zealand and global right-wing medievalism / Louise D'Arcens.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed March 19, 2024).

ISBN:

9781003287407

1003287409

9781040023389

104002338X

Publisher Number:

40032348460

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.