Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism

Informationen zum Autor Clare Broome Saunders Klappentext Saunders uniquely explores how women poets! biographers! historians! and visual artists used medieval motifs! forms! and settings to enable them to comment more freely on controversial contemporary issues! such as war and gender roles. Zusammenfassung Saunders uniquely explores how women poets! biographers! historians! and visual artists used medieval motifs! forms! and settings to enable them to comment more freely on controversial contemporary issues! such as war and gender roles. Inhaltsverzeichnis Recasting the Courtly: Translations of Medieval Language and Form in the Nineteenth Century 'Though Females are Forbidden to Interfere in Politics': War! Medievalism! and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Writer 'It's Strictly the Woman's Part and Men Understand it So': Romance! Gender and the Spectacle of the Crimean The End of Chivalry?: Joan of Arc and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Writer Queenship! Chivalry and 'Queenly' Women in the Age of Victoria Guinevere: The Medieval Queen in the Nineteenth Century Re-reading Guinevere: Women Illustrators! Tennyson and Morris

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• Authors: Clare Broome Saunders, C. Saunders, Clare Broome Saunders, Saunders Clare Broome
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.03.2009
• EAN: 9780230607934
• ISBN: 978-0-230-60793-4
• No. of pages: 243
• Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters; Nineteenth-Century Major Lives; Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters; Nineteenth-Century Major Lives
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies