Anglo-Saxonism
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Chaucer
Chester Mystery plays
cinematic art
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
English culture
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Grail paintings
Middle ages
reinventions
Terry Gilliam
Victorian historical sense
Product details
- ISBN 9780859914871
- Weight: 550g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 07 Mar 1996
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Twelve essays discuss how the middle ages are reflected in English culture from the sixteenth century to the present day.
Eleven essays, by scholars from America, Australia and the United Kingdom, investigate reinventions of the middle ages in English culture from the end of sixteenth century to the present day. Topics addressed include medievalism in English popular literature; Sir Walter Scott's Sir Tristrem; Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Chaucer; George Stephens and Old Northern philology; Anglo-Saxonism and the Franco-Prussian War; Dante and the Victorian historical sense; the Grail paintings of G.F. Watts; heterogeneity and the Kelmscott Chaucer; revivals of the Chester Mystery plays; and the cinematic art of Terry Gilliam.
KATHLEEN VERDUIN is Professor of English, Hope College,Michigan.
Contributors: JOHN SIMONS, DAVID MATTHEWS, ALAN LUPACK, KAREN HODDER, ANDREW WAWN, MARILYNN LINCOLN BOARD, CLARE SIMMONS, ALISON MILBANK, DIANA ARCHIBALD, DAVID MILLS, RICHARD H. OSBERG
