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From Medieval to Medievalism

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. John Simons

    1. King Alfred’s College, Winchester, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: From Medieval to Medievalism

    • John Simons
    Pages 1-7

  3. Manuscript Studies: New Directions for Appreciating Middle English Romance

    • Murray J. Evans
    Pages 8-23

  4. Medievalists and Deconstruction: An Exemplum

    • David Aers
    Pages 24-40

  5. Traces of Romance Textual Poetics in the Non-Romance Works Ascribed to the ‘Gawain’-Poet

    • Barbara Kowalik
    Pages 41-53

  6. Structure and Meaning in Guy of Warwick

    • Maldwyn Mills
    Pages 54-68

  7. Women and Chaucer’s Providence: The Clerk’s Tale and The Knight’s Tale

    • Catherine La Farge
    Pages 69-81

  8. Popular Reading Tastes in Middle English Religious and Didactic Literature

    • John J. Thompson
    Pages 82-100

  9. The Double-Armed Man: Images of the Medieval in Early Modern Military Idealism

    • Simon Barker
    Pages 101-121

  10. Romance in the Eighteenth-Century Chapbook

    • John Simons
    Pages 122-143

  11. The Paths of Virtue and Early English’: F. J. Furnivall and Victorian Medievalism

    • Peter Faulkner
    Pages 144-158

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 159-161
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The book surveys medieval literature from both a critical and an historical standpoint. Medieval literature is increasingly seen as an area of intense specialism which is to be treated differently from other areas of English Studies. The essays collected here try to overturn this perception in two ways. Firstly, there is a demonstration of the ways in which modern critical approaches and perspectives work with the medieval text. Secondly, the idea of the medieval is shown, historically, to be a discourse which has been given different symbolic values and served different social purposes.

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  • King Alfred’s College, Winchester, UK

    John Simons

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