Helen Waddell Reassessed

Jennifer FitzGerald taught in the School of English, Queen’s University Belfast from 1975 to 2002 and is currently attached to the Department of Women’s Studies, San Diego State University. Her intellectual biography Helen Waddell and Maude Clarke: Irishwomen, Friends and Scholars was published by Peter Lang in 2012.

• Contents: Constant J. Mews: Helen Waddell and Heloise: The Continuity of a Learned Tradition – Charles Lock: Scholar of the Dark: Helen Waddell and the Middle Ages – Ann Buckley: Wandering Scholars and Saintly Cults: The Liturgical Legacy – Jennifer FitzGerald: Women, Love and Mime: The Evolution of The Wandering Scholars – Stephen Kelly: The Ghost of a Voice: Waddell’s Peter Abelard between Benjamin and Collingwood – Amanda Tucker: Reviving Helen Waddell’s Lost Decade: Ireland and the Transnational Imaginary – Norman Vance: Helen Waddell: Presbyterian Medievalist – Jennifer FitzGerald: Reading (into) The Wandering Scholars: The (Inter)textual Text – Louise Wasson: Women Scholars and Early Twentieth-Century Medievalism: Helen Waddell and Hope Emily Allen – Norman Vance: Writing Beyond Rome and Geneva – Helen Carr: Wandering Poets and the Spirit of Romance in Helen Waddell and Ezra Pound – David Burleigh: Chinese Originals: Helen Waddell and Arthur Waley – Nini Rodgers: Helen Waddell and the Victorian Family.

«[T]his book is a delight to read, full of unpretentious scholarship, of exact enthusiasms and lively and suggestive judgements.» (Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Óenach: Journal of the Forum for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Ireland 6.1, 2014)