Medievalism in English Canadian Literature - From Richardson to Atwood

First full-length investigation into Canadian literary medievalism as a discrete phenomenon.

List of contents

Introduction: English Canadian Medievalism - Jane Toswell and Anna Czarnowus
"Men of the North": Archibald Lampman's Use of Incidents in the Lives of Medieval Monarchs and Aristocrats - David Bentley
"Going Back to the Middle Ages": Tracing Medievalism in Julia Beckwith Hart's St. Ursula's Convent and John Richardson's Wacousta - Agnieszka Klis-Brodowska
John Richardson's Wacousta and the Transfer of Medievalist Romance - Anna Czarnowus
A Canadian Caliban in King Arthur's Court: Materialist Medievalism and Northern Gothic in William Wilfred Campbell's Mordred - Brian Johnson
Orientalist Medievalism in Early Canadian Periodicals - Laurel Ryan
The Collegiate Gothic: Legitimacy and Inheritance in Robertson Davies' The Rebel Angels - David Watt
Earle Birney as Public Poet: a Canadian Chaucer? - Jane Toswell
"That's what you get for being food": Margaret Atwood's Symbolic Cannibalism - Dominika Ruszkiewicz
Lost in Allegory: Grief and Chivalry in Kit Pearson's A Perfect, Gentle Knight - Cory Rushton
Remembering the Romance: Medievalist Romance in Fantasy Fiction by Charles de Lint and Guy Gavriel Kay - Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun
Medievalisms and Romance Traditions in Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel - Ewa Drab
The Medieval Methods of Patrick DeWitt: Undermajordomo Minor - Michael Fox

Summary

First full-length investigation into Canadian literary medievalism as a discrete phenomenon.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Czarnowus, Brian Johnson, Agnieszka Klis-Brodowska, Cory Rushton, M J Toswell, M. J. Toswell
• Assisted by: Anna Czarnowus (Editor), M J Toswell (Editor), M. J. Toswell (Editor), M.J. Toswell (Editor), Professor M J (Contributor) Toswell (Editor), Professor M. J. Toswell (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781843845478
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-547-8
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 485 g
• Series: Medievalism; Medievalism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Englisch, Kanada, 1500 bis heute