From medievalism to early-modernism : adapting the English past /
From Medievalism to Early Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval and early modern past, and engages with the medievalism and early modernism, a new term introduced in this collection, present in contemporary popular cult...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2019]
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| Series: | Routledge studies in medieval literature and culture ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: medievalism and early-modernism in adaptations of the English past / Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie
- Wonder Woman and the nine ladies worthy: the male gaze and what it takes to be a "worthy woman" / Simone Celine Marshall
- The king, the sword, and the stone: the recent afterlives of King Arthur / Sarah Gordon
- Brand Chaucer: the poet and the nation / Martin Laidlaw
- Moving between life and death: horror films and the medieval walking corpse / Polina Ignatova
- From cabaret to gladiator: refiguring masculinity in Julie Taymor's Titus / Marina Gerzic
- "There's my exchange": the Hogarth Shakespeare / Shelia T. Cavanagh
- Bloody brothers and suffering sisters: the Duchess of Malfi and Harry Potter / Lisa Hopkins
- Playing in a virtual medieval world: video game adaptations of England through role-play / Ben Redder
- "I can piss on Calais from Dover": adaptation and medievalism in graphic novel depictions of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) / Iain A. MacInnes
- Beyond "tits and dragons": medievalism, medieval history, and perceptions in Game of Thrones / Hilary Jane Locke
- Re-fashioning Richard III: intertextuality, fandom, and the (mobile) body in The hollow crown: the Wars of the Roses / Marina Gerzic
- The many afterlives of Elizabeth Barton / Annie Blachly
- The queen, the bishop, the virgin, and the cross: Catholicism versus Protestantism in Elizabeth / Aidan Norrie
- "Unseen but very evident": ghosts, hauntings, and the civil war past / Michael Durrant.