The book surveys medieval literature from both a critical and an
historical standpoint. Medieval literature is increasingly seen as
an area of intense specialism which is to be treated differently
from other areas of English studies. The essays collected here try
to overturn this perception in two ways. Firstly, there is a
demonstration of the ways in which modern critical approaches and
perspectives work with the medieval text. Secondly, the idea of the
medieval is shown, historically, to be a discourse which has been
given different symbolic values and served different social
purposes. In the first half of the book will be found essays on
feminist and structural approaches to the medieval text as well as
a polemical evaluation of post-structuralist criticism and an
introduction to modern approaches to manuscript studies. In the
second half medievalism is analyzed through case studies from the
Renaissance, the 18th-century and the 19th-century.
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