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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511508103321

Titolo

The Post-Historical Middle Ages [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Elizabeth Scala, Sylvia Federico

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009

ISBN

1-282-53237-5

9786612532375

0-230-62155-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

The New Middle Ages

Disciplina

820.9/001

820.9001

Soggetti

Literature, Medieval

Great Britain-History

Europe-History-476-1492

Literature-Philosophy

Medieval Literature

History of Britain and Ireland

History of Medieval Europe

Literary Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Getting Post-Historical; 1 Amorous Dispossessions: Knowledge, Desire, and the Poet's Dead Body; 2 Time Out of Memory; 3 Historicism after Historicism; 4 (Dis)Continuity: A History of Dreaming; 5 The Negative Erotics of Medievalism; 6 Naked Chaucer; 7 Biography after Historicism: The Harley Lyrics, the Hereford Map, and the Life of Roger De Breynton; 8 The Gender of Historicism; 9 From Clio to JHMuse©: Literacy and the Muse of Digitalia; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of original essays repositions medieval literary studies after an era of historicism. Analyzing the legacy of Marxist and materialist theory on medieval literary criticism, the collection offers



new ways of reading texts historically. Drawing upon aesthetic, ethical, and cultural vantage points and methods, these essays demonstrate that a variety of approaches and theories are "historical" and can change what it means to historicize medieval literature. By defining our post-historical moment in medieval English literary studies in terms of new possibilities, this collection will have broad appeal to those interested in the English Middle Ages, history, culture, and reading itself.