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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Other Authors: Gerzic, Marina (Editor), Norrie, Aidan (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2019]
Series:Routledge studies in medieval literature and culture ; 11.
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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.