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Informationen zum Autor Rita Copeland is Associate Professor of English Literature, University of PennsylvaniaDavid Lawton is Professor of English Literature, Washington University, St LouisWendy Scase is Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Birmingham Klappentext New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures. Volume 5 is marked by a preoccupation with origins or beginnings: the return to some of the foundational texts of the "modern," here Marx, Freud, and classical Marxist literary criticism; or how the Middle Ages thematized its own antecedents, in the founding myth of imperial Rome, the originary force of martyrdom, and the reformist foundations of monasticism. Zusammenfassung In this volume the editors write about resurrecting the pagan past in the urban spaces of 14th-century England. The political role of Virgil's "Aeneid" in the Uprising of 1381 is considered and uses the narrative of St Erkenwald as a departure for a profound meditation on death and melancholy. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations Introduction: Remembering after Postmodernism Aeneas in 1381 Crypt and Decryption: Erkenwald Terminable and Interminable Medieval Death, Modern Morality, and the Fallacies of Intention A Man is Being Beaten Queering Sponsalia Christi: Virginity, Gender, and Desire in the Early Middle English Anchoritic Texts The Geography of Genre in the Physician's Tale and Pearl Monastic Politics: St Colette of Corbie, Franciscan Reform, and the House of Burgundy Analytical Survey 5: 'Reading is Good Prayer': Recent Research on Female Reading Communities Index
