Invisible Worlds

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Legendary and Digital Enchantments at Alderley Edge

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvVictoria Flood,Catherine A. M. Clarke,Andrew B. R. Elliott

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An Open Access edition will be available on the Liverpool University Press website on publication, thanks to funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).Invisible Worlds explores the legends of Alderley Edge, in NE Cheshire, in fiction, community response, and creative and digital remediations. The culmination of a major 5-year research project, this co-authored study brings together literary criticism, creative practice, and public and digital medievalism to present new trans-disciplinary approaches to the study of place, taking as a case study the entangled legends and environmental and human histories of this remarkable site. A red sandstone escarpment above a network of mines, Alderley Edge is home to the medievalist legend of the sleeping knights, who rest beneath the hill and will awaken at a time of crisis. This powerful piece of folklore has inspired a rich tapestry of legendary imaginings – literary, public, and personal – associated with Alderley Edge. The volume traces the historical and contemporary life of these legends, from medieval romance to Alan Garner, asking how emplaced, and palimpsestic, medievalism of this type might form the basis of a creative and scholarly public-facing intervention communicating the value of non-built heritage and even issuing a call for environmental conservation.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-10-09
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781805966012

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Victoria Flood is Professor of Medieval & Early Modern Literature at the University of Birmingham. She has published extensively on medieval legendary history, prophecy, and romance, and their postmedieval reception. Catherine A.M. Clarke is Professor and Director of the Centre for the History of People, Place and Community at the Institute of Historical Research, and is a Visiting Professor in English Literature at the University of Southampton. Andrew B.R. Elliott is an Independent Researcher, specialising in medievalism and its uses in modern culture. He has written on film, video games, TV and online culture.

Introduction: Enchantment and Alderley EdgeVictoria Flood with Catherine A. M. ClarkePart 1: The Legend and its PastsVictoria FloodChapter 1: Legendary Entanglements and Eerie MedievalismsChapter 2: Medieval and Modern RomanceChapter 3: The Legend and ProphecyChapter 4: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight at Alderley EdgeChapter 5: Magic on the EdgePart 2: The Site-SpecificCatherine A. M. ClarkeChapter 1: Beyond ‘Sense of Place’Chapter 2: Pre-modern Provocations: Re-Imagining Place and InterpretationChapter 3: Underground ImaginariesChapter 4: Authority and Authenticity: Creative Practice and the Site-SpecificChapter 5: Magical Book-Map: Suspension of Disbelief and Enchantment as Academic PracticePart 3: Crowd-Curated Histories of the EdgeAndrew B. R. ElliottChapter 1: Crowd-Curated HistoryChapter 2: Reframing HistoryConclusion: Medieval Ghosts and Digital OptimismVictoria FloodAppendix 1: Transcription of the Stanley Notebook, CALS, DSA 3752/1, pp. 66-67Victoria FloodAppendix 2: Selected Public Responses, 2021-23Bibliography