Studies in Medievalism VII
D.S. Brewer (Verlag)
978-0-85991-487-1 (ISBN)
Eleven essays, by scholars from America, Australia and the United Kingdom, investigate reinventions of the middle ages in English culture from the end of sixteenth century to the present day. Topics addressed include medievalism in English popular literature; Sir Walter Scott's Sir Tristrem; Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Chaucer; George Stephens and Old Northern philology; Anglo-Saxonism and the Franco-Prussian War; Dante and the Victorian historical sense; the Grail paintings of G.F. Watts; heterogeneity and the Kelmscott Chaucer; revivals of the Chester Mystery plays; and the cinematic art of Terry Gilliam.
KATHLEEN VERDUIN is Professor of English, Hope College,Michigan.
Contributors: JOHN SIMONS, DAVID MATTHEWS, ALAN LUPACK, KAREN HODDER, ANDREW WAWN, MARILYNN LINCOLN BOARD, CLARE SIMMONS, ALISON MILBANK, DIANA ARCHIBALD, DAVID MILLS, RICHARD H. OSBERG
Medievalism as cultural process in pre-industrial popular literature, John Simons; Percy, the antiquarians, the ballad, and the Middle Ages, Gwendolyn A. Morgan; "Quaint Inglis" - Walter Scott and the rise of Middle English studies, David Matthews; "Sir Tristrem" - reception and perception, Alan Lupack; George Stephens, Cheapinghaven, and old northern antiquity, Andrew Wawn; Elizabeth Barrett and the Middle Ages' woeful queens, Karen Hodder; Anglo-Saxonism, the future, and the Franco-Prussian War, Clare A. Simmons; modernizing the Grail quest - gender, theology and allegory in the iconography of G.F. Watts, Marilynn Lincoln Board; Dante, the Victorians and the distancing of history, Alison Milbank; beauty, unity and the ideal - wholeness and heterogeneity in the Kelmscott "Chaucer", Diana C. Archibald; replaying the medieval past - revivals of Chester's Mystery Plays, David Mills; pages torn from the book - narrative disintegration in Gilliam's "The Fisher King", Richard H. Osberg.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.3.1996 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Medievalism |
| Zusatzinfo | 5 b/w, 7 line illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 550 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
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| ISBN-10 | 0-85991-487-9 / 0859914879 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-85991-487-1 / 9780859914871 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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