Medievalism and the shocks of modernity: rewriting northern legend from Darwin to World War II

Medievalism and the shocks of modernity: rewriting northern legend from Darwin to World War II

Literary medievalism has always been critically controversial; it has often been dismissed as reactionary or escapist. This survey of major medievalist writers from America, England, Ireland and Iceland aims to demonstrate instead that medievalism is one of the characteristic literatures of modernit...

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Main Author: Geeraert, Dustin
Other Authors: Young, Arlene (English, Film, and Theatre)
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Literary criticism
Medievalism
Reception studies
Modern literature
Evolutionary theory
Aesthetics
Romanticism
Comparative literature
Fantasy
Mythopoeia
Satire
The English canon
Medieval literature
Science and the Humanities
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/31705

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