Saunders uniquely explores how women poets, biographers, historians, and visual artists used medieval motifs, forms, and settings to enable them to comment more freely on controversial contemporary issues, such as war and gender roles.

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Clare Broome Saunders teaches at the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford.

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Book Title: Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism
Authors: Clare Broome Saunders
Series Title: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230618572
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-61857-2Published: 02 February 2009
Series ISSN: 2691-1256
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5218
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 230
Topics: Medieval Literature, Gender Studies, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature

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