""Medievalism and Orientalism" offers a glimpse into the history
and role of the post-renaissance creation of the Middle Ages in the
formulation of England's idea of itself. Ganim looks beyond
academic medievalism into the fields of anthropology, popular
culture, international expositions, gothic architecture,
antiquarianism, gender studies, politics, religion, language, and
race in this fascinating study of East-West relations that has
never been more relevant or significant than at present."--R.
Howard Bloch, Augustus R. Street Professor of French, Yale
University"In an academic career that practically defines the word
'distinguished, ' John Ganim has repeatedly shown us new ways of
approaching the Middle Ages and the 'medieval.' He continues this
important work in his newest book, where he analyzes 'this hybrid
identity, the twinned association of medievalism and Orientalism.'
He invites and helps us to see how vexed, and vexatious, the
categories of our 'historicisms' are as we try to identify the
objects of our study, which change even as we ourselves change, not
only over time but also through space, especially the unstable and
ever troubled space 'between' East and West."--R. Allen Shoaf,
Senior Editor, "Exemplaria""In these remarkable essays, John Ganim
performs a virtuoso act of untangling the intricate web of cultural
influences, anxieties, and agendas that have shaped the complex and
mutually influential traditions of both medievalism and
orientalism. In a radical yet subtle approach to cultural history,
Ganim analyzes the afterlife of the Middle Ages through three
distinctive and telling formations-as genre, as genealogy, and as
display-showing exactly how, and why, the pastbecame 'another
country' for European tradition. His range is extraordinarily wide,
but every page is marked by insight and revelation, and an
exactitude of criticism and analysis that is often breathtaking.
This book shifts the discussion of medievalism onto another
plane."-Stephanie Trigg, Associate Professor of English, University
of Melbourne"John Ganim is one of the few scholars who see that
orientalism is a tortuous form of self-recognition. His new book is
timely and state-of-the-art: interdisciplinary, transhistorical,
cross-cultural, engaging with literature, historiography,
aesthetics, and architecture, with work in all periods between the
medieval and now, and with much major scholarship in the various
fields. It is also lucid, engaged, and intriguing--a book to be
read for serious pleasure."--David A. Lawton, Professor and Chair
of English and Professor of Religious Studies, Washington
University
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