Studies in Medievalism VI - Medievalism in North America

Studies on the influence of the middle ages, and in particular the Arthurian legends, on the culture of North America.

List of contents

`The History Is Concisely This': Thomas Paine's Account of the Peasants' Revolt - Roger Wood
The Reception of Toby E Rosenthal's Elaine: Medievalism in San Francisco - Kymberly N Pinder
A Quest for the Holy Grail: Edwin Austin Abbey's Murals in the Boston Public Library - Erica Hirshler
Visions of Courageous Achievement: Arthurian Youth Groups in America -
Fra Elbertus and the Roycrofters: Medievalism in East Aurora - Charlotte Oberg
The Arthurian Legend in Canada - Raymond H Thompson
The Greystoke Connection: Medievalism in Two Edgar Rice Burroughs Novels - Stan Galloway
Cecil B. DeMille's Joan the Woman - Robin Blaetz
Dark Laughter in the Chambers of the King: Francois Villon in America - Robert Peckham
Roger Sherman Loomis: Medievalism as Antimodernism - Jeff Rider
`Launcelot in Hell': John Ciardi's Medievalism - Klaus P Jankofsky
The Medieval Roots of Two New Mexican Cuentos - Mary Morse
One Brief Shining Moment: Camelot in Washington, D.C. - Pamela S Morgan
Medieval Language and Politics: Making the World Safe for Feudalism - Susan Aronstein
Twice Knightly: Democratizing the Middle Ages for Middle-Class America - Nancy Coiner
Medieval Language and Politics: Making the World Safe for Feudalism -

Product details

• Authors: Kathleen Verduin
• Assisted by: Kathleen Verduin (Editor), Kathleen (Author) Verduin (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.11.1994
• EAN: 9780859914178
• ISBN: 978-0-85991-417-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 233 mm x 160 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 667 g
• Series: Overcoming Common Problems; Studies in Medievalism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous