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The relationship between medievalism and reception explored via a rich variety of case studies.
At the intersection of the twin fields of medievalism and reception studies is the timely and fascinating question of how a contested past is deployed in the context of a conflicted and contradictory present. Despite their shared roots and a fundamental orientation towards the entanglement of past and present, the term "reception" is rarely taken up in medievalist scholarship, and they have developed along parallel but divergent lines, evolving their own emphases, problematics, sensibilities, vocabularies, and critical tools.
This book is the first to reunite these two fields. Its introduction and first chapter clearly set out their tangled intellectual and disciplinary histories. The ten essays that follow reflect upon the relationship between medievalism and reception in theory and in practice, through thematically, temporally, and geographically expansive case studies, engaging with theories of translation, postcolonialism, fan studies, persona studies, and Indigenous studies. Individual topics examined include the cultural impact of Robin Hood; the Tulsa race massacre; the crusades in the nineteenth century; later representations of Chaucer's works; Victorian representations of Anne Boleyn; and media such as Star Wars and Game of Thrones. As a whole, this collection models and demonstrates the value of a new and self-aware approach to medievalism, enriched by a conscious and critical redeployment of reception theories and methodologies.
At the intersection of the twin fields of medievalism and reception studies is the timely and fascinating question of how a contested past is deployed in the context of a conflicted and contradictory present. Despite their shared roots and a fundamental orientation towards the entanglement of past and present, the term "reception" is rarely taken up in medievalist scholarship, and they have developed along parallel but divergent lines, evolving their own emphases, problematics, sensibilities, vocabularies, and critical tools.
This book is the first to reunite these two fields. Its introduction and first chapter clearly set out their tangled intellectual and disciplinary histories. The ten essays that follow reflect upon the relationship between medievalism and reception in theory and in practice, through thematically, temporally, and geographically expansive case studies, engaging with theories of translation, postcolonialism, fan studies, persona studies, and Indigenous studies. Individual topics examined include the cultural impact of Robin Hood; the Tulsa race massacre; the crusades in the nineteenth century; later representations of Chaucer's works; Victorian representations of Anne Boleyn; and media such as Star Wars and Game of Thrones. As a whole, this collection models and demonstrates the value of a new and self-aware approach to medievalism, enriched by a conscious and critical redeployment of reception theories and methodologies.
Price: $120.00
Pages: 202
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Publication Date:
03 December 2024
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781843847304
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: from c 2000
Cinq reproductions en noir et blanc, minutieusement étudiées par les autrices, complètent l'étude. L'ouvrage est enfin conclu par un index de près de 14 pages, très riche et comme toujours très utile."
(Five black-and-white reproductions, carefully analysed by the authors, complement the study. The volume concludes with a nearly 14-page index, which is both rich and, as always, highly useful.)
These essays effectively speak to the many ways in which medievalism and reception are interconnected fields that complicate and complement one another. It is easy to imagine some of the chapters as useful teaching tools for courses covering topics as diverse as Chaucer, Robin Hood, the Pre-Raphaelites, the crusades, colonization, periodization, translation, and fantasy.
— Leah Haught, University of West Georgia
From Chaucer to Queen Victoria to the newest Star Wars trilogy, Medievalism and Reception makes a compelling case for the necessity of reception as part of medievalism.
(Five black-and-white reproductions, carefully analysed by the authors, complement the study. The volume concludes with a nearly 14-page index, which is both rich and, as always, highly useful.)
These essays effectively speak to the many ways in which medievalism and reception are interconnected fields that complicate and complement one another. It is easy to imagine some of the chapters as useful teaching tools for courses covering topics as diverse as Chaucer, Robin Hood, the Pre-Raphaelites, the crusades, colonization, periodization, translation, and fantasy.
— Leah Haught, University of West Georgia
From Chaucer to Queen Victoria to the newest Star Wars trilogy, Medievalism and Reception makes a compelling case for the necessity of reception as part of medievalism.
Introduction
Ika Willis & Ellie Crookes
1. Newly Receptive? Histories of the Discipline, Medievalism, and Reception Studies - David Matthews
2. The Impossibility and Promise of Chaucerian Medievalism - Candace Barrington
3. Reading the Ripples of Reception: Reviewing the Crusades in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Mike Horswell & Elizabeth Siberry
4. Global Greenwoods, Global Robins - Richard Utz
5. The Dead Ladies Club; or The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Fannish Reading - Kavita Mudan Finn
6. 'Liege Lady': Queen Victoria's Political Medievalism - Clare Broome Saunders
7. Medievalism or Tudorism? Ambivalence and the Past in Nineteenth-Century Representations of Anne Boleyn - Stephanie Russo
8. Robbie Hood and the Indigenous Reclamation of Australian Medievalism - Sabina Rahman
9. Embodied Medievalism: The Beatricified Persona of 'Lizzie Siddal' - Ellie Crookes
10. Reception, Conspiracy, and Legitimation: A Case Study in Medievalist Star Wars Fan Theories - Usha Vishnuvajjala
11. Hosting Chaucer's Pilgrims in Turkish - Nazmi Ağıl
Ika Willis & Ellie Crookes
1. Newly Receptive? Histories of the Discipline, Medievalism, and Reception Studies - David Matthews
2. The Impossibility and Promise of Chaucerian Medievalism - Candace Barrington
3. Reading the Ripples of Reception: Reviewing the Crusades in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Mike Horswell & Elizabeth Siberry
4. Global Greenwoods, Global Robins - Richard Utz
5. The Dead Ladies Club; or The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Fannish Reading - Kavita Mudan Finn
6. 'Liege Lady': Queen Victoria's Political Medievalism - Clare Broome Saunders
7. Medievalism or Tudorism? Ambivalence and the Past in Nineteenth-Century Representations of Anne Boleyn - Stephanie Russo
8. Robbie Hood and the Indigenous Reclamation of Australian Medievalism - Sabina Rahman
9. Embodied Medievalism: The Beatricified Persona of 'Lizzie Siddal' - Ellie Crookes
10. Reception, Conspiracy, and Legitimation: A Case Study in Medievalist Star Wars Fan Theories - Usha Vishnuvajjala
11. Hosting Chaucer's Pilgrims in Turkish - Nazmi Ağıl