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How did the case of the 'mild mannered murderer', Hawley Harvey
Crippen, come to have such an enduring cultural resonance? Almost
as notorious as Jack the Ripper, US citizen and homeopath Dr Hawley
Harvey Crippen was forty-eight years old when he was hanged in
London in November 1910 for the murder and mutilation of his wife.
When Cora Crippen vanished in February 1910, he claimed that she
had returned to the United States. Yet the discovery of a
dismembered body, buried beneath the cola cellar of their house,
and Crippen's attempt to flee to Canada with his cross-dressed
mistress exposed and convicted him. The case aroused enormous
public interest at the time, and it has remained in the popular
imagination ever since, memorialised in crime history, fiction,
film and even musical theatre. As late as 2007, some American
academics were claiming that the dead body was not Cora's and that
Crippen was in fact innocent. This book aims to account for the
endurance of the Dr Crippen murder case in the cultural
imagination. Highlighting the case's disruptive blending of
cultural traditions, it discusses historical precedents, analyses
diverse literary traditions, looks at broadside balladry and
music-hall repertoire and addresses queer theory discourses. The
book shows how the case, part throwback to earlier crime sensations
and part presage of a new understanding of criminality, represents
a watershed in the representation of criminality and played a
distinctive role in the development of crime fiction.
Articles on comedy in Arthurian romance - French, Dutch, Italian,
Scottish and English. The texts analyzed underline the wide
dissemination of the Arthurian story in medieval and post-medieval
Europe, from Scotland to Italy, while the various analyses of the
manifestations of comedy refute the notion of romance as
ahumourless genre. Indeed, the comic treatment of conventional
themes and motifs appears to be not only characteristic of later
romance but an essential element of the genre from its beginnings
and from its earliest development. Authors of Arthurian romance,
from Chretien de Troyes to Malory, writing in French, Italian,
Middle Dutch, and Middle English, and the creators of an Irish
prose-tale, all question the fundamental assumptions of romance and
romancevalues through the medium of comedy. The theme of comedy in
Arthurian romance has been developed from the orignal session at
the Arthurian Congress in Toulouse. Contributors: ELIZABETH
ARCHIBALD, FRANK BRANDSMA, CHRISTINE FERLAMPIN-ACHER, LINDA GOWANS,
DONALD L. HOFFMAN, MARGOLEIN HOGENBIRK, NORRIS J. LACY, MARILYN
LAWRENCE, BENEDICTE MILLAND-BOVE, PETER S. NOBLE, KAREN PRATT,
ANGELICA RIEGER, ELIZABETH S. SKLAR, FRANCESCO ZAMBON.
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Arthurian Literature XXII (Hardcover)
Keith Busby, Roger Dalrymple; Contributions by Annette Voelfing, Ben Ramm, Fanni Bogdanow, …
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Selection of the latest research in Arthurian studies. The essays
in this volume present the most recent fruits of Arthurian
scholarship, on texts from Perlesvaus to Albrecht's Jüngerer
Titurel and the Prose BrutChronicle, together with a detailed
examination of the role of Micheau Gonnot's Arthuriad in the
evolution of Arthurian romance. The volume also includes an
investigation of Arthurian prophecy and the deposition of Richard
II. It is completed with an encyclopaedic treatment of Arthurian
literature, art and film produced between 1999 and 2004, acting as
a continuing update to The New Arthurian Encyclopedia.
Contributors: BEN RAMM, FANNI BOGDANOW, ANNETTE VOLFING, HELEN
FULTON, JULIA MARVIN, RAYMOND H. THOMPSON, NORRIS J. LACY
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Arthurian Literature XX (Hardcover)
Keith Busby, Roger Dalrymple; Contributions by Cyril Edwards, Dinah Hazell, Edward Donald Kennedy, …
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Studies of major Arthurian works and authors in Old French, Middle
High German, Middle English, and of one important novel by C. S.
Lewis. Arthurian Literature continues the policy of alternating
themed issues and miscellanies. This varied collection includes
studies of major Arthurian works and authors in Old French, Middle
High German, Middle English, and ofone important novel by C.S.
Lewis. A controversial textual crux in Chretien's Yvain, debated
vigorously by scholars in the late 1980s, is revisited, while the
narrative function of clothing in Chretien's romances comes under
review. An enigmatic and linguistically difficult passage from Der
jungere Titurel is translated and discussed, and an article on Der
arme Heinrich studies this pious tale in the context of its generic
affiliations: while not strictly speaking an Arthurian romance, it
deserves consideration here as a work of one of medieval Germany's
most significant writers of Arthurian romance. There is discussion
of Thomas Chestre's adoption of the lai as a vehicle for social
criticism in his Middle English adaptation of Marie de France's
Lanval; the evolution of Arthurian romance in medieval England is
also the primary concern in a study of The Awntyrs off Arthure. The
figure of Arthur himself is central to an examination of the Middle
English Prose Brut, and the delicate political implications of
Malory's Morte Darthur are explored. Finally, C.S. Lewis's
transformation and use ofthe figures of Uther Pendragon and Merlin
in That Hideous Strength is explored. Contributors: RICHARD BARBER,
JANE DEWHURST, TAMAR DRUKKER, CYRIL EDWARDS, DINA HAZELL, DONALD
KENNEDY, GERALD SEAMAN, KRISTA SUE-LO-TWU, JANINA P. TRAXLER,
MONICA L. WRIGHT.
This book focuses on Learning in the Round which is a term taken
from the theatre to describe an approach to learning, teaching and
professional development in which three sets of actors
participants, specialists and facilitators work together. Using
their collective knowledge they explore work-based issues and
topics in order to convert personal experience into productive
knowledge. Learning in the Round acknowledges the importance of
both experience and social aspects of learning by means of group
interaction in order to create understanding.
The most recent research in matters Arthurian, by leading scholars
in the field. The essays in this latest volume have a particularly
strong focus on English material; they include explorations of
Malory's presentation of Sir Dinadan, the connections between
ballads and popular romance, and, moving beyond themedieval period,
Thomas Love Peacock's The Misfortunes of Elphin. They are
complemented by articles on French sources [L'Atre perilleux, the
Queste del Saint Graal, and the Perlesvaus], and with an overview
of the idea of cowardice and Arthurian narrative.Contributors:
ANDREW LYNCH, P. J. C. FIELD, JOYCE COLEMAN, D. THOMAS HANKS JR,
RALUCA L. RADULESCU, MARGARET ROBSON, MARTIN CONNOLLY, NORRIS J.
LACY, FANNI BOGDANOW, TONY GRAND, ROBERT GOSSEDGE
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