From Medieval to Medievalism (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 1992
First published:	1992
Editors:	John Simons
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	161
ISBN-13:	978-0-333-53274-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	0-333-53274-0
Barcode:	9780333532744

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