Medievalism in English Canadian Literature

From Richardson to Atwood

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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First full-length investigation into Canadian literary medievalism as a discrete phenomenon.The essays in this volume consider what is original and distinctive about the manifestation of medievalism in Canadian literature and its origins and its subsequent growth and development: from the first novel published in Canada written by a Canadian-born author, Julia Beckwith Hart's St Ursula's Convent (1824), to the recent work of the best-selling novelist Patrick DeWitt (Undermajordomo Minor, published in 2015). Topics addressed include the strong strain of medievalist fantasy itself in the work of the young-adult author Kit Pearson, and the longer novels of Charles de Lint, Steven Erikson, and Guy Gavriel Kay; the medievalist inclinations of Archibald Lampman and W.W. Campbell, well-known nineteenth-century Canadian poets; and the often-studied Wacousta by John Richardson, first published in 1832. Chapters also cover early Canadian periodicals' engagement with orientalist medievalism; and works by twentieth-century writers such as the irrepressible Earle Birney, the witty and intellectual Robertson Davies, and the fascinating and learned Margaret Atwood.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-02-21
Mått156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt494 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMedievalism
Antal sidor218
FörlagBoydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN9781843845478

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M.J. TOSWELL is a Professor at theUniversity of Western Ontario. ANNA CZARNOWUS is a Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice. ANNA CZARNOWUS is a Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice. CORYJAMES RUSHTON is Associate Professor in the Department of English at St Francis Xavier University, Canada. David Watt is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba and a fellow of St. John's College. He has written extensively on Hoccleve's Series as well as articles on late medieval literature and book history. M.J. TOSWELL is a Professor at theUniversity of Western Ontario.

Introduction: English Canadian Medievalism - Jane Toswell and Anna Czarnowus"Men of the North": Archibald Lampman's Use of Incidents in the Lives of Medieval Monarchs and Aristocrats - David Bentley"Going Back to the Middle Ages": Tracing Medievalism in Julia Beckwith Hart's St. Ursula's Convent and John Richardson's Wacousta - Agnieszka Klis-BrodowskaJohn Richardson's Wacousta and the Transfer of Medievalist Romance - Anna CzarnowusA Canadian Caliban in King Arthur's Court: Materialist Medievalism and Northern Gothic in William Wilfred Campbell's Mordred - Brian JohnsonOrientalist Medievalism in Early Canadian Periodicals - Laurel RyanThe Collegiate Gothic: Legitimacy and Inheritance in Robertson Davies' The Rebel Angels - David WattEarle Birney as Public Poet: a Canadian Chaucer? - Jane Toswell"That's what you get for being food": Margaret Atwood's Symbolic Cannibalism - Dominika RuszkiewiczLost in Allegory: Grief and Chivalry in Kit Pearson's A Perfect, Gentle Knight - Cory RushtonRemembering the Romance: Medievalist Romance in Fantasy Fiction by Charles de Lint and Guy Gavriel Kay - Sylwia Borowska-SzerszunMedievalisms and Romance Traditions in Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel - Ewa DrabThe Medieval Methods of Patrick DeWitt: Undermajordomo Minor - Michael Fox