Medievalism in English Canadian Literature

From Richardson to Atwood
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-84384-547-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 218 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Reihe: Medievalism

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

The essays in this volume consider what is original and distinctive about the manifestation of medievalism in Canadian literature and its origins and its subsequent growth and development: from the first novel published in Canada written by a Canadian-born author, Julia Beckwith Hart's St Ursula's Convent (1824), to the recent work of the best-selling novelist Patrick DeWitt (Undermajordomo Minor, published in 2015). Topics addressed include the strong strain of medievalist fantasy itself in the work of the young-adult author Kit Pearson, and the longer novels of Charles de Lint, Steven Erikson, and Guy Gavriel Kay; the medievalist inclinations of Archibald Lampman and W.W. Campbell, well-known nineteenth-century Canadian poets; and the often-studied Wacousta by John Richardson, first published in 1832. Chapters also cover early Canadian periodicals' engagement with orientalist medievalism; and works by twentieth-century writers such as the irrepressible Earle Birney, the witty and intellectual Robertson Davies, and the fascinating and learned Margaret Atwood.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Toswell, M J

Czarnowus, Anna

Weitere Mitwirkende

Klis-Brodowska, Agnieszka

Czarnowus, Anna

Johnson, Brian

Rushton, Cory James

Bentley, David

Watt, David

Ruszkiewicz, Dominika

Drab, Ewa

Ryan, Laurel

Toswell, M. J.

Fox, Michael A.E.

Borowska-Szerszun, Sylwia

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Toswell, M J
M.J. TOSWELL is a Professor at theUniversity of Western Ontario.

Czarnowus, Anna
ANNA CZARNOWUS is a Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice.

Watt, David
David Watt is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba and a fellow of St. John's College. He has written extensively on Hoccleve's Series as well as articles on late medieval literature and book history.

Toswell, M. J.
M.J. TOSWELL is a Professor at theUniversity of Western Ontario.

Czarnowus, Anna
ANNA CZARNOWUS is a Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice.