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"This is one of the best collections of essays I have encountered in recent years. The organizing concept is compelling and superbly executed. Every essay is a good fit for the collection, and the essays speak to each other while avoiding repetition. Not only is this volume of value to students and scholars of medieval literature and medievalism, but it should also be required reading for all would-be editors of collections of essays." - Medieval Feminist Forum
"This exciting collection of essays opens up new directions in both medieval studies and studies in medievalism, bringing much-needed rigour to the latter, and putting to work the often advocated but seldom practiced notion that medieval texts are created in their re-reading and reconstruction as much as in their original contexts of production. The collection will be essential to students and scholars of Julian of Norwich but also of interest to anyone in Middle English studies concerned with new approaches to historicism, close reading, and relations between the medieval past and modernity. Julian of Norwich's Legacy, consisting of essays by both senior scholars and newer talents, is exemplary in its use of cultural studies within medieval studies." - David Matthews, University of Manchester
"Just when we thought there was little more to be said about the medieval woman writer, Julian of Norwich, this volume provides an important and exciting new approach to the author, her work and her audiences since the production of her two texts over six hundred years ago. By focusing on Julian s post-medieval reception in particular, Julian of Norwich s Legacy demands a rethinking of the academic labels generally attached to her as writer, mystic or theologian, asking us instead to consider her in terms of constantly evolving symbol or malleable hermeneutic. As such, we are presented with a multiplicity of Julians who are reworked and reinvented according to the needs, interests and requirements of an ever-changing audience and its attempts to understand the contingencies of the modern moment . In this way Julian of Norwich s Legacy not only fills a major gap within contemporary Julian Studies but also speaks cogently to and about those approaching Julian of Norwich from outside the academy." - Liz Herbert McAvoy, Senior Lecturer in Gender in English Studies and Director of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research, Swansea University and author of Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe.
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Book Title: Julian of Norwich's Legacy
Book Subtitle: Medieval Mysticism and Post-Medieval Reception
Editors: Sarah Salih, Denise N. Baker
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101623
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
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60667-8Published: 18 December 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-37403-8Published: 18 December 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10162-3Published: 09 November 2009
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 217
Topics: Medieval Literature, Classical and Antique Literature, History of Medieval Europe, British and Irish Literature, Religious Studies, general