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This book reveals the breadth and depth of women's engagements with
Arthurian romance in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries. Tracing the variety of women's responses to the medieval
revival through Gothic literature, travel writing, scholarship, and
decorative gift books, it argues that differences in the kinds of
Arthurian materials read by and prepared for women produced a
distinct female tradition in Arthurian writing. Examining the
Arthurian interests of the best-selling female poets of the day,
Felicia Hemans and Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and uncovering those
of many of their contemporaries, the Arthurian myth in the Romantic
period is a vibrant location for debates about the function of
romance, the role of the imagination, and women's place in literary
history.
Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the
Middle Ages, with a particular focus on its relationship with
business and finance. In the wake of the many passionate responses
to its predecessor, Studies in Medievalism 22 also addresses the
role of corporations in medievalism. Amid the three opening essays,
Amy S. Kaufman examines how three modern novelists have refracted
contemporary corporate culture through an imagined and highly
dystopic Middle Ages. On either side of that paper, Elizabeth Emery
and Richard Utz explore how the Woolworth Company and Google have
variously promoted, distorted, appropriated, resisted, and
repudiated post-medieval interpretations of the Middle Ages. And
Clare Simmons expands on that approach in a full-length article on
the Lord Mayor's Show in London. Readers are then invited to find
other permutations of corporate influence in six articles on the
gendering of Percy's Reliques, the Romantic Pre-Reformation in
Charles Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth, renovation and
resurrection in M.R. James's "Episode of Cathedral History",
salvation in the Commedia references of Rodin's Gates of Hell, film
theory and the relationship of the Sister Arts to the cinematic
Beowulf, and American containment culture in medievalist
comic-books. While offering close, thorough studies of traditional
media and materials, the volume directly engages timely concerns
about the motives and methods behind this field and many others
inacademia. Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson
University in Baltimore, Maryland. Contributors: Aida Audeh,
Elizabeth Emery, Katie Garner, Nickolas Haydock, Amy S. Kaufman,
Peter W. Lee, Patrick J. Murphy, Fred Porcheddu, Clare A. Simmons,
Mark B. Spencer, Richard Utz.
This book reveals the breadth and depth of women's engagements with
Arthurian romance in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries. Tracing the variety of women's responses to the medieval
revival through Gothic literature, travel writing, scholarship, and
decorative gift books, it argues that differences in the kinds of
Arthurian materials read by and prepared for women produced a
distinct female tradition in Arthurian writing. Examining the
Arthurian interests of the best-selling female poets of the day,
Felicia Hemans and Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and uncovering those
of many of their contemporaries, the Arthurian myth in the Romantic
period is a vibrant location for debates about the function of
romance, the role of the imagination, and women's place in literary
history.
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